Middle English Dictionary Entry
uncutte ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | uncutte ppl. Also unkut, unkit. |
| Etymology | From cut , kut, kit, p.ppl. of cutten v.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of a person: not wounded (by a knife); of hair: not shorn from the head, uncropped, long;
(b) of a root of a tree or vine: unpruned, intact.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)288/33 : Here vnkutt hatt ‘coma’ and is a word of grewe…‘tondere’ in latyn, ‘schere’ in englisch.
- (c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)11/44 : Who mai kepe hym vnkyt fro a kene knyfe Ȝif he boldly þat blad touche in his tene?
b
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.351 : At iij yeer olde In hoot lond hem transplaunte…Thaire roote vncutte.
- a1500 Bollard Grafting (Sln 686)33 : Som men let þe rote ende of þe vyne vnkut a yere.