unspun
/ʌnˈspʌn/
unspun adjective: not spun.
Adjective
unspun (not comparable)
- Not spun.
- Of fibers, not yet having been twisted into yarn or thread.
- Different breeds of sheep have been raised by the Navajo, and sometimes the yarn, and even the unspun wool, have come from outside the reservation.1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 302
- Do not spin right up to the very end of your carded fibers; leave a generous unspun area for easy joining on of the next wool.1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 102
Origin of unspun
From un- + spun.
Words that rhyme with unspun
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- rerun
- stun
- nun
- shun
- 'un
- Gunn
- jump the gun
- none
- outrun
- overdone
- begun
- dun
- fun
- hon
- pun
- speedrun
- thon
- undone
- verdun
- winter sun
- 1
- 101
- 26+6=1
- cun
- dun dun dun
- everyone
- hard-won
- have one's mind about one
- hot cross bun
- marble run
- misdone
- mun
- Munn
- old one
- one hundred and one
- one thousand and one
- organ gun
- outdone
- outgun
- over and done
- quaker gun
- redone
- respun
- rewon
- snatch and run
- spun
- steam gun
- temperature gun
Questions about unspun
- What does unspun mean?
- Unspun means not spun.
- What part of speech is unspun?
- Unspun is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unspun?
- Unspun is pronounced /ʌnˈspʌn/.
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