Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of feet: as, feetless insects.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of feet.

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  • adjective Without feet.

Etymologies

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feet +‎ -less

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Examples

  • No undreamable dreams about whether the headless, feetless torso hanging in the tree with a sign on it was her husband or Paul A; whether the bubbling-hot girls in the colored-school fire set by patriots included her daughter; whether a gang of whites invaded her daughter's private parts, soiled her daughter's thighs and threw her daughter out of the wagon.

    Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987

  • We have had wheatless days, and meatless days, let us have feetless days; keep your feet on the floor, not on your desk.

    Pine Needles, 1921. No Author 1921

  • Sometimes they protrude maimed limbs, feetless legs or arms without hands; they display loathsome wounds, horribly inflamed; every variety of disease is shown to extort a copper.

    The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919

  • Wallie was still wearing much of the wardrobe he had brought with him, and when dressed to go outside he was warm but unique in a green velour hat, his riding breeches, brilliant golf stockings that were all but feetless thrust in arctics, a blue flannel shirt from the Emporium in

    The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • VALENCE in Westminster Abbey, A.D. 1296, the Martlet appears feetless, as in No. 161; and at a later period this mode of representation was generally adopted.

    The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

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