untamped

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ tamped

Adjective[edit]

untamped (not comparable)

  1. Not having been tamped.
    • 1871, Charles Robert Cross, William Ripley Nichols, John Trowbridge, editors, Year-book of facts in science and art, page 97:
      A charge of 200 pounds of gunpowder, in bags merely laid at the foot of the stockade, untamped, was first exploded.