c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., XII. 230. Ek plauntis fair excuse To stonde vnpuld, that they be not to seke.
c. 1450. Two Cookery Bks., 99. Cast x. or xij. oynons hole vnpullud, and lete hem seth togidre.
c. 1536. Bellenden, Chron. Scot. (1821), I. p. ix. The lillyis, and the violet, Unpullit, sone ar with the wind ouirset.
1551. Cranmer, Answ. Crafty & Sophist. Cavillation, To Rdr. A iij b. What auaileth it … so long as ii. chief rootes remayne vnpulled vp?
1608. H. Clapham, Errour Left Hand, 72. Some doubts, which yet (as stumps) remaine behind vnpulled vp.
1641. Earl Monm., trans. Biondi’s Civil Wars, II. 95. If some few [houses] remained un-pulled down.
1694. Dryden, Love Triumph., III. i. ’Tis indeed a Fruit; Seen and desir’d of all, while yet unpull’d.
1765. Museum Rust., V. 120. Ground as much over-run with seagrims as any part else of the pasture which had been unpulled!
1895. Westm. Gaz., 15 June, 3/2. The greatest of devils must be in that carriage [= a cable-tram], making it crawl along unpulled, unpushed.
