v. Obs. Also 5 pa. t. and pa. pple. vnwrast(e; 7 vnrest. [UN-2 9.] trans. To undo, detach, or dislocate, by wresting or wrenching.
c. 1450. Lovelich, Merlin, 13942. The ȝate closed aȝen also faste as hit ne hadde neuere ben vnwraste.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, VIII. xxxiv. 326. Bothe his handes … were fast bounden vnto two knyghtes;… sodenly he pulled them bothe to hym, and vnwrast his handes.
1509. Barclay, Shyp of Folys, 25. Haddest thou leuer se Thy sonnes necke vnwrested wyth a rope, Than [etc.].
1598. Florio, Distorcere,… to wriggle, to wrest, to vnwrest.
1613. Daniel, Coll. Hist. Eng., II. 139. Their occasions made them somewhat to vnrest [1617 unwrest] the Soueraigntie from that height whereunto hee had strayned it.
