Word Meanings - UNLAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.

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• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• UNLAY
  To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.