unrifled
Britishadjective
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After extricating the animals, searchers found a series of unknown, unrifled tombs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even for a crack shot, an unrifled, early seventeenth-century gun had fewer advantages over a longbow than may be supposed.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The man was armed, but the women were burdened with his own belongings—the medicine chest—his saddle and bridle—his unrifled mule-pack—and, wonder of wonders! the presents Khinjan's sick had given him, including money and weapons.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
Not a desk or a drawer was left unrifled, not an article of furniture unmoved.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
I will part with it only on this condition, that if there bee nothinge in it which concernes them, the rest may returne to mee unrifled and untutcht.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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