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- noun crossword puzzles An
unchecked square : one that is part of onlyone entry (i.e.,across ordown , but notboth ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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She's cheery enough, but I 'ave a' unch 'er true love's reserved for' er new sword.
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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
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Start working out a rotation schedule between here and Ch'unch'on.
Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991
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Ch'unch'on was a South Korean air base used by the U.S.
Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
frogapplause commented on the word unch
(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
hernesheir commented on the word unch
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
bilby commented on the word unch
"I'd been looking for an unchecked square table cloth and finally found one in a thrift shop."
March 4, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word unch
"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
bilby commented on the word unch
"Left unchecked, the Slovak Republic continues to develop a cultural identity independent of that of the former Czechoslovakia."
March 4, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word unch
"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
ruzuzu commented on the word unch
"Were you looking for inch? "
March 4, 2011
pterodactyl commented on the word unch
Unch derives from the French l'uncheon, meaning "the elegant midday meal that is eaten on an unchecked tablecloth".
March 5, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word unch
At last, we get to the root of the chequered etymology of unch. Thanks ptero! Haha.
March 5, 2011