unrip

You know it comes about this wide [three feet] and they'd sew it up each side, so if you're going to make a sheet, you just unrip one side and hem the ends.

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

So unrip your gown and give me the samples of the goods.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

They carried their search so far as to rummage the pockets of my old clothes, and even to unrip the linings.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

All this they should discuss in their room at night, assured that they would be overlooked and overheard; and when quite certain that eyes were watching them, Lord Claud was to unrip his doublet and take thence

Tom Tufton's Travels Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

The assembled company eyed them with wonder; which you may be sure was not diminished, when they began to unrip the linings and the patches of those old clothes, and as the seams were opened, poured out before them a prodigious quantity of jewels.

Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845

Leonard's voice he appeared greatly relieved, and, taking his gown from beneath his pillow, gave it to him, and desired him to unrip a part of the garment, in which it was evident something was sewn.

Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

He then asked me for my penknife and proceeded to unrip the bag, and took out of it a large piece of paper closely folded up.

Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society George Henry Borrow 1842

Giglio's bed, like a good girl, and then you may unrip my green silk, and then you can just do me up a little cap for the morning, and then you can mend that hole in my silk stocking, and then you can go to bed, Betsinda.

The Rose and the Ring William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Giglio's bed, like a good girl, and then you may unrip my green silk, and then you can just do me up a little cap for the morning, and then you can mend that hole in my silk stocking, and then you can go to bed, Betsinda.

The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

They carried their search so far as to rummage the pockets of my old clothes, and even to unrip the linings.

The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836