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unˈploughed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 8 c. Cf. Du. ongeploegd, MLG. ungeploget, MSw. oplögdher (Sw. oplöjd), Da. upløjet, Norw. upløgd.]
1. Not turned up by the plough. Also with up.
1580Lupton Sivqila 25 What is it to sowe seede uppon the grasse or greene swarde, unplowed or undigged? 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. ii. 328 Like to that smell, which oft our sense descries Within a field which long unplowed lyes. 1649Lovelace The Scrutinie iii, Like skilfull Minerallists that sound For Treasure in un-plow'd-up ground. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 42 Allow two fields to lie unplowed;..they will produce very different plants. 1832Scoreby Farm Rep. 4 in Husb. III. (L.U.K.), The ridge freshly turned up then covers the unploughed ground. 1891Malden Tillage 106 To throw the split-furrows on to the unploughed land.
transf.1839Hallam Hist. Lit. II. 287 The daring adventurer that violates their unploughed waters. 1859Maury Phys. Geog. ii. 38 This unploughed sea would be an oft-used thoroughfare. 1864Bryant New & Old 21 Brows unploughed by care.
2. Of books: Not trimmed with the plough.
1886W. George's Catal. No. 129. 1 Cloth and boarded books are always edges unplowed (if so issued.) |