unnailed

The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit of air entering the hold.

Les Miserables 2008

He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, alas! with clenched fists, with arms outspread at right angles, like a man crucified who has been unnailed, and flung face down on the earth.

Les Miserables 2008

The blind man held out his hat, that flapped about at the door, as if it were a bag in the lining that had come unnailed.

Madame Bovary 2003

Then they went to battle again so marvellously that doubt it was to hear of that battle for the great blood-shedding, and their hauberks unnailed that naked they were on every side.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

Arthur held up the unnailed end of the plank and the old prophet scuttled into the recesses of his hovel, returning a moment or two later with a small Sub-Etha radio.

Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992

Keep the last sheet unnailed and use this opening to go inside and check the supporting structure.

5. Construction of ferro-cement reservoirs 1989

There is some whimsicality in placing the two ladies under a canopy, formed by the unnailed valance of the bed, and characteristically crowned by the wig-box of a highwayman.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

Then they went to battle again so marvellously that doubt it was to hear of that battle for the great blood-shedding, and their hauberks unnailed that naked they were on every side.

Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

"Tell the manager that if it is not unnailed tomorrow, I shall smash a hole in it," said Andrew.

The Mountebank William John Locke 1896

And this dining-parlor -- Can you judge of it with the floor half laid and its wainscoting unnailed?

The Old Stone House and Other Stories Anna Katharine Green 1890