vbl. sb. [f. UNCOUPLE v.] The action of the verb.
c. 1369. Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 377. With a grete horne [he] blewe thre mote At the vncoupylynge of hys houndys.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xxxv. He shulde blowe iii. longe moot to þe vncoupelynge.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. lii. 500. To the vncoupelynge, to the sekynge, to the rechate [etc.].
1611. Cotgr., Descouple, the vncoupling of houndes, or loossing them after their game.
