ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1825. Hist. Paris, II. 162. Several millions of bank bills remained uncashed, nearly all the specie was gone out of France, the finances of the state were a nullity, and a great number of families were reduced to utter misery.
1856. Miss Mulock, J. Halifax, xxx. Many who had been scrambling, swearing, almost fighting, to reach the counter and receive gold for their notes, put them again into their pockets, uncashed.
1879. F. R. Havergal, Kept for the Master’s Use, i. 18. For unclaimed promises are like uncashed cheques; they will keep us from bankruptcy, but not from want.
1896. Harper’s Mag., XCIII. 35/1. It happened … that I had two or three uncashed checks in my pocket.
