Definitions

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  • adjective Without a machine.

Etymologies

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machine +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Far away, two men, machineless, plodded this same Xanthe Desert toward the same goal; but they plodded southward, approaching on a different radius.

    Rebels of the Red Planet Charles Louis Fontenay 1962

  • The Ark was rudderless, oarless, and machineless, and could travel only where the High Gods chose.

    The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905

  • In most cases a thousand years of machineless progress would not suffice to provide for hand-labor the employment which machine-fearing critics falsely assume to have been taken away by machinery from -- operatives unborn!

    Our Patent-System, and What We Owe to It 1878

  • I recommend one of the slot machineless casinos nearby, he's not interested.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks taxpayer 2010

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