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unˈcarved, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] 1. Not carved or cut up for eating.
a1592Greene Jas. IV, i. ii, I cannot abide..a fat capon vncaru'd. 2. Not carved or cut artistically or ornamentally.
1611Florio, Inscolpito, vncarued, vngrauen. 1613–39I. Jones in Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 45 This Architrave is..uncarv'd. 1830Q. Rev. XLIII. 21 It was a rude uncarved wooden log about six feet long. 1831W. Ellis Polynesian Res. (ed. 2) I. xiv. 354 A straight log of hard casuarina wood,..uncarved, but decorated with feathers. |