Undecked

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not decked, adored, or embellished.

1570.  Levins, Manip., 50. Vndecked, incultus.

1596.  Edward III., I. ii. 150. The ground, vndect with natures tapestrie, Seemes barrayne.

1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., XI. (1626), 225. A Fane, vndeckt with gold or marble stone Adioynes.

1667.  Milton, P. L., V. 380. Eve Undeckt, save with her self…, Stood to entertain her guest from Heav’n.

1740.  Dyer, Ruins Rome, 247. Those piles undeck’d, capacious, vast.

1811.  Willan, in Archaeol., XVII. 162. Undight, undressed, or undecked.

  2.  Not furnished with a deck or decks.

1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1780), s.v., Couloirs, The sides of undecked vessels.

1824.  W. H. Smyth, Mem. Sicily, etc., iv. 123. The undecked boats of the Rhegians.

1841.  Emerson, Ess., Self-reliance, Wks. (Bohn), I. 37. Columbus found the New World in an undecked boat.

1894.  C. N. Robinson, Brit. Fleet, 202. Large, undecked row-boats.