Take kit off a French fool heroically ended at front (8)
I believe the answer is:
unclothe
'take kit' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with ownership as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'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' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'heroically ended' is 'he'.
'un'+'clot'+'he'='UNCLOTHE'
'off' is the 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" .)