discumber
English
Etymology
From dis- + cumber: compare Old French descombrer.
Verb
discumber (third-person singular simple present discumbers, present participle discumbering, simple past and past participle discumbered)
- (archaic, transitive) To disencumber.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- a single beam the chief bestrides / There, pois'd awhile, above the bounding tides / His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest
References
- “discumber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.