v. [UN-2 4 b.] trans. To unstring (a bow); to free or disengage from a cord or cords.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, IV. lviii. (1869), 204. Þe corde [with] which þe bowe was corded, and þat j haue vncorded.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Desencordé.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 73. His servants punctually performed that, which his Master had commanded him; vn-cording … the very selfe-same Trunke.
1712[?]. Dangerous Present, 4. If the Box had been uncorded, and the Cords drawn leisurely.
1754. G. K., in Connoisseur, No. 33. 198. Pinning baskets, and cording trunks; as again … in unpinning, uncording, locking up foul linnen.
1842. Borrow, Bible in Spain, viii. The fellow … began to pull the trunks off the sumpter mule and commenced uncording them.
