dismail

English

Etymology

From Old French desmailler.

Verb

dismail (third-person singular simple present dismails, present participle dismailing, simple past and past participle dismailed)

  1. (archaic) To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
      Their mightie strokes their haberieons dismayld, / And naked made each others manly spalles […]

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