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  1.  Not carved or cut up for eating.

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a. 1592.  Greene, Jas. IV., I. ii. I cannot abide … a fat capon vncaru’d.

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  2.  Not carved or cut artistically or ornamentally.

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1611.  Florio, Inscolpito, vncarued, vngrauen.

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1613–39.  I. Jones, in Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), II. 45. This Architrave is … uncarv’d.

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1830.  Q. Rev., XLIII. 21. It was a rude uncarved wooden log about six feet long.

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1831.  W. Ellis, Polynesian Res. (ed. 2), I. xiv. 354. A straight log of hard casuarina wood,… uncarved, but decorated with feathers.

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