discumber

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ cumber: compare Old French descombrer.

Verb

discumber (third-person singular simple present discumbers, present participle discumbering, simple past and past participle discumbered)

1. (archaic, transitive) To disencumber.
   • 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 5”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:

     a single beam the chief bestrides / There, pois'd awhile, above the bounding tides / His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest

References

• “discumber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• subdermic