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  1. adj. Lacking wheels, without wheels.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having no wheels or having no wheeled vehicles

Examples

  • “Then he had quickly brought the plane forward, making it leap slightly and lurch upward, causing the wheelless landing strut to rise a few feet into the air . . .”

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  • “Shamefacedly he entered the passenger compartment of the wheelless vehicle.”

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  • “With a swift rush the wheelless cab had risen from the nickel-cobalt roadway and lurched off into one of the express traffic lanes.”

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  • “All the other shelter proposals are basically stark, gray, cinderblock warehouses for humanity, poisonous, wheelless trailers left over from no-bid Katrina contracts, or even tents surrounded by guard towers.”

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  • “The outbuilding's central area was empty save for an ancient tractor sitting wheelless on the massive stumps of its axles, but in one of the equipment stalls, the light of our powerful flashlight picked out a few rusty, left-over tools and a wooden ladder leaning against the back wall.”

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  • “I have been, in my time, belated on miry by-roads, towards the small hours, forty or fifty miles from London, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken postboys, and have got back in time for publication, to be received with never-forgotten compliments by the late Mr. Black, coming in the broadest of Scotch from the broadest of hearts I ever knew.”

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  • “An old bicycle, wheelless and rusted, protruded from the lagoon bed beneath him.”

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  • “DOBBS: And as you described it, the wheels off on this administration, and quickly finding itself wheelless.”

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  • “Beyond the garage, in a field studded with juniper bushes, a woman was standing near a wheelless pickup truck.”

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  • “He had but few more downward steps to go and could picture himself soon dragging some wheelless sledge or travois, that or selling little trinkets from a pack on his back.”

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