unstranded

The epitaph of German criticism on Shakespeare was long since written by the unconscious hand which penned the following sentence; an inscription worthy of perpetual record on the registers of Gotham or in the daybook of the yet unstranded Ship of Fools.

A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

Tossed carelessly in the corner appeared some blankets topped by a few straggling black horse tails, like an unstranded riata.

On the Frontier Bret Harte 1869

They each had bits of unstranded old junk in their hands, and, with a sort of stoical self-content, were picking the junk into oakum, a small heap of which lay by their sides.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

The servant wore nothing but wide trowsers, apparently, from their coarseness and patches, made out of some old topsail; they were clean, and confined at the waist by a bit of unstranded rope, which, with his composed, deprecatory air at times, made him look something like a begging friar of St. Francis.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

At one extremity the rope was unstranded, and the separate spread yarns were all braided and woven round the socket of the harpoon; the pole was then driven hard up into the socket; from the lower end the rope was traced halfway along the pole's length, and firmly secured so, with inter-twistings of twine.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

At one extremity the rope was unstranded, and the separate spread yarns were all braided and woven round the socket of the harpoon; the pole was then driven hard up into the socket; from the lower end the rope was traced half-way along the pole's length, and firmly secured so, with intertwistings of twine.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Ropes were unstranded, and the yarns picked apart; and, cut up into small bits, were used as a substitute for the weed.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

At one extremity the rope was unstranded, and the separate spread yarns were all braided and woven round the socket of the harpoon; the pole was then driven hard up into the socket; from the lower end the rope was traced half way along the pole's length, and firmly secured so, with intertwistings of twine.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

My stranding is definitely kind of uneven, and I think these came out smaller than they would have unstranded, but they fit me despite my total lack of anything like swatching.

Life in the Pink Cyn 2010

Finding untinned, unstranded copper wire was a real challenge.

Planet Debian 2009