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单词 unbarbed
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unbarbedadj.1

Etymology: un- prefix1 2. See barb v. 1, 2
Obsolete.
1. Of cloth: Not barbed or clipped.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > treated or processed in specific way > [adjective] > sheared or clipped > not clipped or cropped
unshorn1464
unbarbed1535
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 13 §1 No wollen cloth..shuld be conveyed ouer the See unrowed, unbarbed and unshorne.
1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 19 Any coloured Clothe above the value of thre poundes, unrowed, unbarbed or unshorne.
1643 in W. H. Black Docquets Lett. Patent at Oxf. (1837) 363 To transporte all wollen clothes vnrowed, vnbarbd, vnshorne, and not fully drest.
2. poetic. Unmown, uncut.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > reaping or mowing > reaped or mowed > not
unslainc1440
unmown1536
unreaped1552
unshorn1580
unbarbed1612
unmowed1615
unscytheda1818
unsickleda1822
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 216 When with his hounds The laboring Hunter tufts the thicke vnbarbed grounds Where harbor'd is the Hart.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xii. lxvii. 227 The Virgin-Meads, whose Gaies Unbarb'd, perk up to prank the curled Stream.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

unbarbedadj.2

Etymology: un- prefix1 2 + barbed adj.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈbarbed.
Unarmed; not caparisoned; unbarded.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > not
weaponlessa1000
unweaponedc1200
barec1275
unarmed1297
nakedc1300
plaina1400
disarmedc1425
unboden1456
unbarbed1565
unbarded1598
unmunitioned1626
armlessa1640
munitionless1871
barehanded1874
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Equus patens vulneri, a horse vnbarbed, and in daunger to be wounded.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. ii. 99 Must I goe shew them my vnbarb'd Sconce? View more context for this quotation
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

unbarbedadj.3

Etymology: un- prefix1 2 + barbed adj.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈbarbed.
a. Not furnished with a barb or barbs. Also figurative.
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the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [adjective] > without prickles or barbs
unprickly1660
unprickleda1711
unbarbed1844
barbless1882
1844 J. Tomlin Missionary Jrnls. 84 The point sharp as the finest needle, but unbarbed.
1880 Dawson Fossil Man (1882) v. 135 In the north barbed bone spears were used, and also little unbarbed bones with two elastic pieces of wood at the sides.
b. Const. by. (Cf. barb v. 4.)
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [adjective] > in speech > of words or speech
soft-spoken1828
unbarbed1863
1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd i The busy tongues..were not unbarbed by malice.
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