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axeless en · ADJ

Etymology

From axe + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without an axe.
    • ...it was probably this condition that caused the fatal accident to an ice-axeless tourist on Ben More ten or a dozen years ago. 1905, Scottish Mountaineering club journal: Volume 8:
    • He wears his chain for a belt and, axeless, swings it for a weapon. 1990, Linda Svendsen, Words we call home: celebrating creative writing at UBC, page 297:
    • Another chapter deals with the axeless microlithic culture... 1938, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Antiquity: Volume 12:

Translations (3)

de axtlos (Translations) · fi kirveetön (Translations) · pl bez topora (Translations)