"unsplay" meaning in English

See unsplay in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: unsplays [present, singular, third-person], unsplaying [participle, present], unsplayed [participle, past], unsplayed [past]
Etymology: From un- + splay. Etymology templates: {{af|en|un-|splay}} un- + splay Head templates: {{en-verb}} unsplay (third-person singular simple present unsplays, present participle unsplaying, simple past and past participle unsplayed)
  1. (uncommon, especially of fingers) To bring together compactly. Tags: especially, uncommon

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 148",
          "text": "... fingers themselves — not splayed and unsplayed them, but pulsed them, I guess I'd say; pulsed them leisurely — leisurelily? I give up. No I don't. Fred Mackall pulsed his spread-fingered, fingertip-touching hands leisurely[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "2018 July 11, Colleen L. Donnelly, Out of Splinters and Ashes, The Wild Rose Press Inc",
          "text": "... fingers splaying and unsplaying over the brakes. “I can't.” I wouldn't. I'd never run against Jill again unless I actually wanted to win, and that included their idea of casually running with her. “I have to be somewhere.” Jill[…]",
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        "(uncommon, especially of fingers) To bring together compactly."
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