Definitions

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  • adjective Without a boat or boats.

Etymologies

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boat +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Also menu-like out of her strung heart came surprising plots: Spanish women and high shoes, stories of valleys and boatless seas no cargoes.

    Barbara Guest greenintegerblog 2008

  • ED the Mouse presents: my sundowner and a boatless booze cruise

    [ my sundowner and a boatless booze cruise ] on 04.03.08 @ 5:36 am empty-dreams 2008

  • So we'll drive downtown along the boatless river and park on deserted Houston Street.

    Jesse Kornbluth: Giving Thanks: I'll Have Pastrami on Rye at Katz's Delicatessen 2008

  • The other resource of the boatless islander was another description of float, also retrogressive from the log; the idea not transmitted to him by any high-minded bird, but forced upon his attention by elemental strife.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Sharks and Itais [04.03.08 - 5: 36 am] - my sundowner and a boatless booze cruise my sundowner and a boatless booze cruise [04.03.08 - 4: 41 am] - wagner takes the square wagner takes the square [04.01.08 - 9: 14 pm] - its between left or leaving its between left or leaving [03.19.08 - 3: 44 pm] - The Celebutard Chronicles - The Falcon

    empty-dreams Diary Entry empty-dreams 2002

  • O bearer of the conch, discus, and mace, rescue the sons of Pandu sunk in the fathomless and boatless Kuru-ocean, by becoming

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Anyway, here was he in the same village with her not a mile away, and yet a gulf stretched between them apparently impassable as a river in flood to a boatless man who could not swim.

    The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

  • At the time of Cook's visit it was woodless and boatless except for one rickety canoe, and therefore was almost excluded from the food supplies of the sea.

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • It was a curious fact in natural history that on the lochs with boats the trout were in the shallow water, but in the boatless lochs they were away out in the depths.

    Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

  • The strong green waters of the great river were divided at this ancient ford by two midstream islands, which accounted for the selection of the spot for the daring essay of a bridgeless and boatless crossing.

    The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890

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