Noah Webster
Sunder
SUN'DER, verb transitive
1. To part; to separate; to divide; to disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; as, to sunder a rope or cord; to sunder a limb or joint; to sunder friends, or the ties of friendship. The executioner sunders the head from the body at a stroke. A mountain may be sundered by an earthquake.
Bring me lightning, give me thunder;
--Jove may kill, but ne'er shall sunder
2. To expose to the sun. [Provincial in England.]
SUN'DER, noun In sunder in tow.
He cutteth the spear in sunder Psalms 46:9.