ungroundadj.
1. Not ground in a mill; not crushed or reduced to powder.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [adjective] > ground > not
unground1488
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > [adjective] > ground > not ground
incontunded1599
uncontunded1599
unbeaten1607
unbruised1607
unground1805
1488 Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 98/2 Half a boll of malt vn~grond, price xs.
a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill v. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ccccc2/1 Shall the sayles of my love stand still? Shall the grists of my hopes be unground?
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes ii. §24. 163 Some of them did eate the corne as it was unground.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 355 About 100 Sacks of unground Malt.
1760 Ann. Reg., Chron. 192/2 A duty of 1d. ½..shall be paid on every bushel of malt, whether ground or unground, which [etc.].
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 211 The trials which Dr. Hunter made with ground and unground bones.
1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) i. 603 The mill is then stopped, [and] the water drained off from the unground sand and mercury.
2. Not sharpened, smoothed, or worn down by grinding.
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the world > space > shape > bluntness > [adjective] > not sharpened
unground1611
unwhetteda1644
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > ground or crushed > not
unground1611
the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > not smoothed, polished, etc.
unpolisheda1382
unrubbedc1400
unshavena1547
unscaled1577
unrolled1580
unfiled1590
unplained1598
unplaned1611
unsmoothed1614
impolite1621
unground1793
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Morfil The edge side of a new and vnground knife.
1793 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 92 The swinging level.., fixed to the tube of the telescope,..is unground.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind viii. 193 The finding of hundreds of unground implements.
1893 Athenæum 25 Mar. 382/2 The palæolithic or unground stage of the implement-maker's art.
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