单词 | unpiled |
释义 | unpiledadj. Not laid or heaped up in a pile or piles; unstacked. ΚΠ 1766 E. Buys Sewel's Compl. Dict. Eng. & Dutch (new ed.) II. 559/2 Ongestapeld hout, Unpiled wood. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Burn-baking This fire might do mischief..by spreading to, and burning the yet unpiled turfs. 1835 Liverpool Mercury 5 June 6/4 A quantity of lathwood was landed from the Henrietta, and left loose or unpiled upon the quay. 1884 J. Johnson Rudimentary Society among Boys i. 15 A tree is the property of a boy and his partners only so long as his nuts remain unpiled on the ground. 1911 M. H. Kittredge Housek. Notes i. i. 22 Dishes that stand unpiled and unrinsed require more time and more effort. 1937 Jrnl. Mammalogy 18 192 The other two spruce areas..appeared to have about the same percentage of unpiled cones. 2006 Sherbrooke (Quebec) Record (Nexis) 24 Feb. 7 The unpiled sticks of firewood in the basement served as her scratching posts. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1766 |
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