Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not made square: as, unsquared timber.
  • Not properly formed or proportioned; irregular.

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  • adjective not squared

Etymologies

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un- +‎ squared

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Examples

  • 'Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquared,

    Troilus and Cressida 1601

  • ’Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquared,

    Troilus and Cressida 2004

  • Both men spent more time lumbering around and tossing handfuls of salt into the unsquared circle than they did pushing each other around.

    2005 April » Japundit Blog 2005

  • Both men spent more time lumbering around and tossing handfuls of salt into the unsquared circle than they did pushing each other around.

    A really big show » Japundit Blog 2005

  • The peasants 'houses are scattered up and down without any order or arrangement, and with no roads between, built of trunks of trees, unsquared, and mortised into each other at the corners, the interstices filled with moss and mud, a mode of building warmer than it sounds.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • In order to prevent vibrations in the trip hammer when it is lifted, and increase the number of blows, there is established a spring beam, which is formed of unsquared timber, which is firmly fastened at one of its extremities, and which receives at the other end the shock of the hammer head when the latter reaches the end of its upward travel.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various

  • At the actual edge, there was a row of almost vertical piles, pine trees driven unsquared.

    The Pit Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts 1918

  • The log-house was made of unsquared trunks of pine -- roof, walls, and floor.

    Treasure Island 1883

  • The log-house was made of unsquared trunks of pine -- roof, walls, and floor.

    Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • A few boats lay in the mouth of the river, a dissolute-looking brig with its yards unsquared was at anchor higher up, and a sharp eye could detect a figure or two about the beach.

    The Black Bar George Manville Fenn 1870

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