ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. OHG. ungaworaht, ungewurchet (MHG. ungeworht, G. -wirkt), MLG. ungewercht; also UNWROUGHT and UNWERKED ppl. adjs.]
1. Not wrought into shape; not worked upon.
1730. Bailey (fol.), Unwrought (of un and weorcian, Sax.), unworked.
1862. J. Newton, in Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Chesh. (N.S.), II. 103. Flint implements … obtained by a few adroit cleavages from the unworked boulders amidst which they lie.
1865. Lubbock, Preh. Times, viii. 265. One single unworked flint.
2. Not worked in or operated upon. Chiefly fig.
1817. Lady Morgan, France (1818), II. 190. Drawing from the unworked mine of fancy and imagination.
1858. Glenny, Gard. Every-day Bk., 83/1. This applies to all kinds of unworked subjects.
1874. Raymond, Statist. Mines & Mining, 365. Harris Gulch … contains much unworked ground.
1884. Longm. Mag., March, 486. The ingenuity of inventors … would not allow so fine a field for invention to remain long unworked.
b. = UNWROUGHT ppl. a. 3 b.
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-m., 268. Unwrought or Unworked, coal or other mineral which has not been mined or worked.
