Unrip

You know it comes about this wide [three feet] and they'd sew it up each side, so if you're going to make a sheet, you just unrip one side and hem the ends. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So unrip your gown and give me the samples of the goods. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They carried their search so far as to rummage the pockets of my old clothes, and even to unrip the linings. ❋ Various (N/A)

All this they should discuss in their room at night, assured that they would be overlooked and overheard; and when quite certain that eyes were watching them, Lord Claud was to unrip his doublet and take thence ❋ Evelyn Everett-Green (1894)

The assembled company eyed them with wonder; which you may be sure was not diminished, when they began to unrip the linings and the patches of those old clothes, and as the seams were opened, poured out before them a prodigious quantity of jewels. ❋ John Henry Newman (1845)

Leonard's voice he appeared greatly relieved, and, taking his gown from beneath his pillow, gave it to him, and desired him to unrip a part of the garment, in which it was evident something was sewn. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

He then asked me for my penknife and proceeded to unrip the bag, and took out of it a large piece of paper closely folded up. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

Giglio's bed, like a good girl, and then you may unrip my green silk, and then you can just do me up a little cap for the morning, and then you can mend that hole in my silk stocking, and then you can go to bed, Betsinda. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

When they arrived there they lifted out the bags, laid them on the stone steps, and proceeded to unrip them, when they found Snarleyyow, who was just giving signs of returning animation. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Then another said, 'twas easiest to unrip a cloak; for that was to let it alone: but she was answered, by asking her, how she unript it if she let it alone? and she confess herself mistaken. ❋ Unknown (1653)

When these were gone, we heard as high a contention amongst the beggars, whether it was easiest to rip a cloak, or to unrip a cloak? ❋ Unknown (1653)

-- would she unrip the lining, just out of feminine curiosity, and sew it up again, pretending that she had not touched it, after the "usual way of women"? ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

"I've got a sewing kit in the car -- we'll unrip the upholstery and I can stitch you up a suit in no time. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

But if you will help me unrip the jacket, I will suck the inside -- after you. " ❋ Charles Reade (1849)

"Stronger than either of these motives was my shrinking and loathing aversion to whatever seemed likely to unrip the secret history of the past. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)