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  • noun crossword puzzles An unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).

Etymologies

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Examples

  • She's cheery enough, but I 'ave a' unch 'er true love's reserved for' er new sword.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • Ops had been able to get a KC-135 tanker deployed north out of Ch'unch'on, and that had kept Jefferson's airborne planes in the air, but the crews were getting tired now, stretched to the limit and ready to break.

    Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

  • Start working out a rotation schedule between here and Ch'unch'on.

    Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

  • Ch'unch'on was a South Korean air base used by the U.S.

    Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

  • If they can get a tanker up out of Ch'unch'on, we shouldn't have to use any South Korean bingo fields at all. "

    Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

  • Still,. for the last 40 years, my "go to" has been the Ka Bar fighting knife 1095 steel with 7 unch blade leather stacked handle etc etc.

    Best of the Best Awards: Best New Hunting Gear 2009 2009

  • Still,. for the last 40 years, my "go to" has been the Ka Bar fighting knife 1095 steel with 7 unch blade leather stacked handle etc etc.

    Best of the Best Awards: Best New Hunting Gear 2009 2009

  • Still,. for the last 40 years, my "go to" has been the Ka Bar fighting knife 1095 steel with 7 unch blade leather stacked handle etc etc.

    Best New Knife 2009: DiamondBlade P.D. 2009

  • Still,. for the last 40 years, my "go to" has been the Ka Bar fighting knife 1095 steel with 7 unch blade leather stacked handle etc etc.

    Best New Knife 2009: DiamondBlade P.D. 2009

  • Still,. for the last 40 years, my "go to" has been the Ka Bar fighting knife 1095 steel with 7 unch blade leather stacked handle etc etc.

    Best New Knife 2009: DiamondBlade P.D. 2009

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  • (crossword puzzles) An unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).

    I still don't understand. What is an "unchecked square"? I need a picture.

    March 4, 2011

  • I have an 'unch that checking that square will result in SPAM and unwanted snail mail, and assaults on one's personal identity.

    March 4, 2011

  • "I'd been looking for an unchecked square table cloth and finally found one in a thrift shop."

    March 4, 2011

  • "Seen as privation, evil can also be linked to the symbol of a sleeping soul, to a state of ignorance unchecked by the light of the intellect penetrating the darkness." - Richard G. Geldard, 1991, God in Concord: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Awakening to the Infinite, p. 136.

    March 4, 2011

  • "Left unchecked, the Slovak Republic continues to develop a cultural identity independent of that of the former Czechoslovakia."

    March 4, 2011

  • "Munch, Edvard 1863-1944. Norwegian artist whose works include etchings, lithographs, and paintings, such as The Scream (1893) and Frieze of Life (1897)."

    --American Heritage Dictionary

    March 4, 2011

  • "Were you looking for inch? "

    March 4, 2011

  • Unch derives from the French l'uncheon, meaning "the elegant midday meal that is eaten on an unchecked tablecloth".

    March 5, 2011

  • At last, we get to the root of the chequered etymology of unch. Thanks ptero! Haha.

    March 5, 2011