unworked
adjEtymology From Middle English unwerked, unwerched, equivalent to un- + worked. Doublet of unwrought.
1
Yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.
- For years there stood in the sculptor's studio a two-ton block of unworked Italian marble.
2
Archaeology, History, Human sciences, Sciences Describing an unaltered material found associated with human tool-making or other cultural activity.
- Dozens of unworked obsidian cobbles were found buried with the deceased.
- Related terms
- nonworking, unworkable