Mesty blew out the candle, and they all retreated to the binnacle, where Mesty took out a coil of the ropes about the mizzen-mast, and cutting it into lengths, gave them to the other men to Unlay.
"Mr. Midshipman Easy"
Captain Frederick Marryat
The holdfast was missin', an' the rope was beginning' to Unlay, so I whipped the end of it.
"Paradise Bend"
William Patterson White
"Now Unlay the strands so," he would say.
"The Mutineers"
Charles Boardman Hawes