What does unwayed mean?
Unwayed means (obsolete) Not used to travel..
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(obsolete) Not used to travel..
a. 1642, John Suckling, letter to a cousin for beasts that have been rid off their legs are as much for a man's use as colts that are unwayed, and will not go at all.
Captain Goyto met the person who had charge of it, and sent him to Ferrante without the horse, with a message that as the animal was young and unwayed, he intended to break him for Ferrante.
Though I am unwayed, yet I am going to depart this moment .
What an unwayed Behaviour hath this Flemish drunkard pickt (I'th' devills name) out of my Conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?
Fansie me leading, like Cattel, the remainder (if there be any left) of my rallied Army, through unwayed Mountains, and Summer- Thickets!
if her streets and roads are to be washed into the unwayed deep ; if the gay sunbeams that now flicker over her green hills and fields are to dance on the foam and surge and over the echoless caves of the ocean,—these dire happenings will come only when those who have known the Cape Cod of our day have been gathered to their fathers.
By contrast John Brinsley is worried by her cult of virginity; a 'malcontent' she lives 'all alone without a husband, ranging of the unwayed woods' (after her transformation he shows more approval).
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Unwayed means (obsolete) Not used to travel..
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a. 1642, John Suckling, letter to a cousin for beasts that have been rid off their legs are as much for a man's use as colts that are unwayed, and will not go at all.
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