untrimmed

[ uhn-trimd ]

adjective
  1. not trimmed.

  2. Also uncut. Bookbinding. (of gathered sections of a book) having the bolts untrimmed by a guillotine or plow.

Origin of untrimmed

1
First recorded in 1525–35; un-1 + trim + -ed2

Other words from untrimmed

  • un·trimmed·ness, noun

Words Nearby untrimmed

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How to use untrimmed in a sentence

  • They went silently through the untrimmed garden, full of the pale-coloured flowers of spring.

    Ruth | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
  • I thought of the ferocious Ercole with a long, untrimmed beard and unkempt hair falling over his face.

    The Making of a Saint | William Somerset Maugham
  • His untrimmed beard, his bent head with its leonine mane of iron-gray hair, lent him an almost patriarchal look.

    The Open Question | Elizabeth Robins
  • The walls are built of untrimmed bare stones, but the crevices are stopped with earth to keep out the wind.

  • The hind leg, or untrimmed ham, just as it is cut from the carcass, is shown in Fig. 20.

    Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences