unfenced
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unfenced (not comparable)
- Not fenced.
- (of animals or people) Not enclosed by a fence and thus free to roam over a wider area.
- Hypernyms: unhampered, untrammeled
- Coordinate term: unfettered
- Near-synonym: free-range
- 1858, The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society:
- Ireland must have remained utterly unfenced and, therefore, uncultivated, for many a century; and the sparse tribes that inhabited the country must have principally subsisted venatically.
- (of lands, real estate, etc.) Not enclosed by a fence and thus more easily approachable, visitable, encroachable, attackable, and so on.
- Synonym: fenceless
- Hyponym: unstockaded
- Coordinate terms: unmoated; unwalled, wall-less; untrammeled; (sometimes coinstantial but often not) undefended, defenceless, defenseless
- 1941 May, W. Dendy, “The Cyprus Government Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 201:
- The line is unfenced, except in the vicinity of stations, and runs across the treeless Mesaorian plain for the whole distance between Famagusta and Nicosia.
- 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Wisbech & Upwell Tramway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 46:
- It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher.
- (figuratively) Without protection.
- Synonyms: fenceless; undefended, defenceless, defenseless
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 81:
- She [Nature] has made the hinder part of the Head, more strong, as being otherwise unfenced against falls and other casualties.
- (of animals or people) Not enclosed by a fence and thus free to roam over a wider area.
Verb
[edit]unfenced
- simple past and past participle of unfence
Translations
[edit]not enclosed by a fence
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