v. [UN-2 4 b.] trans. To remove from a spit.
1574. T. Newton, Health Mag., I iij b. Rosted fleshe is then best to be vnspitted and taken from the broche.
1611. Cotgr., Desembrocher, to vnspit; pull off the broach.
1648. Hexham, Ontspeten, to Vnspit, or to Vnbroach a peece of meate.
1798. in Spirit Public Jrnls. (1799), II. 290. The pigs and geese were all unspitted.
1820. T. Mitchell, Aristoph., I. 116. The science which he displays in boiling, roasting, spitting, and unspitting.