Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not yet having the marriage consummated, as a bride.
- Not existing in beds, layers, or strata. See
bedded , 3.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unbed .
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Examples
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He was still unbedded, but two of the younger slatterns of a West-Town merchant had cast eyes on him.
The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982
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Consequently, rheumatic arthritis is to be seen affecting horses that are in service, more often at heavy draft work where they are exposed to severe straining of joints; where stabling is insanitary; and where they are obliged to lie down (if they do not remain standing) upon cold and wet ground or upon hard unbedded floors or paving.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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If part of the floor of the pen is raised and kept well bedded with straw, while the rest is not, all excrement will be left on the unbedded portion of the floor, and the bed itself will be always clean.
Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry Pratt Food Co.
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"A lady, sir, from Virginia, that I started with from her father's house, to fetch to Carolina; but who has been most audaciously unhoused and unbedded in the very middle of the night by a hellish pack of Tories."
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I think he lingers a bit too long on the description of unbedded Briseis and the Trojan maidens waiting to be ravished and Agamemnon’s three beautiful daughters, but he ends with a passionate peroration, reminding Achilles of his own father’s advice, Peleus’ admonition to value friendship over quarrels.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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That’s wat’s making him crazy sick — because the poor boy’s cold and weary and unbedded by night.
Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966
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