"undeck" meaning in English

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          "text": "Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself I find myself a traitor with the rest, For I have given here my soul's consent T'undeck the pompous body of a king, Made glory base and sovereignty a slave, Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant",
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          "text": "but Eve Undeck'd save with herself , more lovely fair Than wood-nymph, or the fairest goddess feign'd Of three that in mount Ida naked strove , Stood to' entertain her guest from heav'n;",
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          "text": "Undeck'd they stand, and unadorn'd with Praise, And fail to profit while they fail to please.",
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          "ref": "1896, Manchester Literary Club, “Sir Samuel Ferguson”, in Transactions, page 446:",
          "text": "He toiled to make our Story stand as from Time's reverent, runic hand It came, undeck'd By fancies false, erect, alone, The monumental artic stone Of ages wreck'd.",
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          "ref": "1880, Joseph Crawhall, “Sour Grapes”, in Border Notes & Mixty-maxty: Poems, page 22:",
          "text": "Ruthless Time with his furrowing tread (Oh! that we mortals could bid him stay:) So chills the blood and undecks the head, That unsaucy young minxes e'en say us nay .",
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          "text": "Lucky Strike undecks the table, but does not dare touch my cursed china.",
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        "(transitive) To remove ornaments from; to strip."
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          "ref": "1961, The Lumberman - Volume 88, page 35:",
          "text": "It also unloads logs, decks, undecks, delivers and picks up from the peeling station and, in be- tween, puts a small log between tusks and forks and, using it as a blade, sweeps up bark and debris from the black top into a burning pit.",
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          "text": "A modern-day example: a transportability approach that lets you undeck big capacity carrier-mounted liftcranes for between-job moves.",
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          "text": "Then he said, out in a rush, \"Captain Geroen says he's getting reports from riverside, they say there's an awful lot of activity across the river, and Captain Geroen wants to undeck our half of the bridge, and send men to watch all the fordable parts of the river upstream and down, and muster the men.",
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          "text": "Lucky Strike undecks the table, but does not dare touch my cursed china.",
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          "text": "However, when the loading work was subcontracted, Respondent's employees did not, as part of the loading operation, undeck the logs and deposit them in a place accessible to the subcontractor's employees for subsequent loading except, as the record shows, in very isolated instances. Thus, I find, that there was no historical frequency sufficient to be characterized as a \"practice\" of utilizing a composite crew for the undecking and loading of logs.",
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          "text": "Then he said, out in a rush, \"Captain Geroen says he's getting reports from riverside, they say there's an awful lot of activity across the river, and Captain Geroen wants to undeck our half of the bridge, and send men to watch all the fordable parts of the river upstream and down, and muster the men.",
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