Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not eared or plowed; untilled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not eared, or plowed.

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  • adjective unploughed

Etymologies

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un- +‎ eared

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Examples

  • It seems so, Stephen said, when he wants to do for him, and for all other and singular uneared wombs, the holy office an ostler does for the stallion.

    Ulysses 2003

  • -- It seems so, Stephen said, when he wants to do for him, and for all other and singular uneared wombs, the holy office an ostler does for the stallion.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • It was pitiful to see the green, uneared corn already turning yellow because of the lack of moisture, the beasts searching the starved pastures for food and the poor husbandmen wandering about their fields or striving to hoe the iron soil.

    Ayesha, the Return of She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Beside it is an inclosure of barley with strong and pointed spikes; and another of oats, whose grain, uneared, spreads broader to the eye.

    Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796

  • Matos threw 8 of 9 pitches for strikes in a quick 6th inning, but allowing his inherited runner to score resulted in his first blown save, and allowing an uneared run to his own record gave him his first loss of the season.

    McCovey Chronicles 2009

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