Take kit off a French fool heroically ended at front (8)
I believe the answer is:
unclothe
'take kit' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with ownership as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'a french fool heroically ended at front' is the wordplay.
'a french' becomes 'un' ('a' in French).
'fool' becomes 'clot' (I've seen this before).
'at front' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letters of 'heroically ended' is 'he'.
'un'+'clot'+'he'='UNCLOTHE'
'off' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unclothe that I've seen before include "lay bare" , "Strip (someone)" , "set garments aside" , "shed" , "Reveal" .)