unwayed

Adjective

unwayed (comparative more unwayed, superlative most unwayed)

1. (obsolete) Not used to travel.
   • 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.1551, Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Edward VI., 1547-1553
   • 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.
2. Having no ways or roads; pathless.
   • 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?1602, William Shakespeare, Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor
   • Fansie me leading, like Cattel, the remainder (if there be any left) of my rallied Army, through unwayed Mountains, and Summer- Thickets!1690, W. R., The English Orator