ppl. a. [UN-1 8, 8 c. Cf. Du. ongeploegd, MLG. ungeploget, MSw. oplögdher (Sw. oplöjd), Da. upløjet, Norw. upløgd.]
1. Not turned up by the plough. Also with up.
1580. Lupton, Sivqila, 25. What is it to sowe seede uppon the grasse or greene swarde, unplowed or undigged?
1613. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. ii. 328. Like to that smell, which oft our sense descries Within a field which long unplowed lyes.
1649. Lovelace, The Scrutinie, iii. Like skilfull Minerallists that sound For Treasure in un-plow’d-up ground.
1765. A. Dickson, Treat. Agric. (ed. 2), 42. Allow two fields to lie unplowed;… they will produce very different plants.
1832. Scoreby Farm Rep., 4, in Husb., III. (L.U.K.). The ridge freshly turned up then covers the unploughed ground.
1891. Malden, Tillage, 106. To throw the split-furrows on to the unploughed land.
transf. 1839. Hallam, Hist. Lit., II. 287. The daring adventurer that violates their unploughed waters.
1859. Maury, Phys. Geog., ii. 38. This unploughed sea would be an oft-used thoroughfare.
1864. Bryant, New & Old, 21. Brows unploughed by care.
2. Of books: Not trimmed with the plough.
1886. W. George’s Catal., No. 129. 1. Cloth and boarded books are always edges unplowed (if so issued.)
