"unhand" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From un- + hand.",
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      "form": "unhands",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1, lines 9-12:",
          "text": "He holds him with his skinny hand,\n\"There was a ship,\" quoth he.\n\"Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!\"\nEftsoons his hand dropt he.",
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          "ref": "1853, Oliver Optic, Hatchie, The Guardian Slave or The Heiress of Bellevue. A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west, B. B. Mussey and Company, and R. B. Fitts and Company, Chapter XXX, page 305:",
          "text": "“Unhand' the lady!” said Vernon, in a severe tone, as, at the same time, he draw from his pocket a pistol. “Unhand her!” and he approached the lawyer",
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          "ref": "2008, Anne Gracie, The Stolen Princess, Berkley Books, →ISBN, Chapter Two, page 33:",
          "text": "As he dried the last toe, she said, “Thank you. You may now unhand my feet”",
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        "To release from the hand; to let go."
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ænd"
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  "word": "unhand"
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          "text": "“Unhand' the lady!” said Vernon, in a severe tone, as, at the same time, he draw from his pocket a pistol. “Unhand her!” and he approached the lawyer",
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  "word": "unhand"
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