unearedadj.
Obsolete exc. archaic.
Unploughed, untilled.
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unearedc1000
unploughed1523
unharrowed1580
unfoiled1611
quick1620
maiden1622
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 147 Rus, unered land.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 15 The balkis that they calle vnered lond.
1558 Reg. Cupar Abbey (1890) II. 268 [He] sall ere.. Robertsonis land for this instant crope, safar as is vnerit.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets iii. sig. Bv Where is she so faire whose vn-eard wombe Disdaines the tillage of thy husbandry? View more context for this quotation
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 194 When he wants to do for him, and for all other and singular uneared wombs, the holy office an ostler does for the stallion.
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