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Enseam vs Unseam - What's the difference?

enseam | unseam |

As verbs the difference between enseam and unseam

is that enseam is to remove the surplus fat from a horse while unseam is to open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.

enseam

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To remove the surplus fat from a horse.
  • (obsolete) To sew or stitch up in a covering

    • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 * QI Annual 2007

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    unseam

    English

    Verb

  • To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open.
    • Quotation
  • :* 1603-06': "...Till he '''unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements." — ''Macbeth: Ac.1 Sc2, Wm. Shakespeare.