Meanings
adjectiveunquarried (not comparable)
- not comparableNot quarried.
The granite for his monument lies unquarried nor is its erection needed.
1888, Harry A. Lewis, Hidden Treasures1 more example
He touched the heights of the Misty City and the sea-fog that had walled it in through the night as with walls of unquarried marble--albeit the eaves had dripped in the darkness as after a summer shower--and anon the opaque vapors dissolved and fled away.
1912, Charles Warren Stoddard, In the Footprints of the Padres
Origin
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