Definitions

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  • adjective having no motor. Opposite of motorized.

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  • adjective Without a motor (machine or device).

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  • adjective having no motor

Etymologies

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motor +‎ -less

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Examples

  • If Antonio relies on Forrest's promise and buys the motorless boat, Forrest cannot then deny his promise to sell Antonio the motor at the agreed-upon price.

    Legal Definitions 2009

  • If Antonio relies on Forrest's promise and buys the motorless boat, Forrest cannot then deny his promise to sell Antonio the motor at the agreed-upon price.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2009

  • Then the reporter throws in this stuff: The bridge "may carry motorless people in such a way as to eliminate scraped knees and the hurled epithet."

    Jack Bog's Blog: August 2009 Archives 2009

  • They will become do-it-yourselfers, making their own meals, entertaining at home, watching Netflix, creating their own culture of the home, finding out how to repair their own things and mowing the lawn with an old fashioned motorless push mower, sewing their own clothes, etc.

    When Children Are Grown 2009

  • If Antonio relies on Forrest's promise and buys the motorless boat, Forrest cannot then deny his promise to sell Antonio the motor at the agreed-upon price.

    Define That Term #317 2009

  • Then the reporter throws in this stuff: The bridge "may carry motorless people in such a way as to eliminate scraped knees and the hurled epithet."

    The hurled turgidity (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • If Antonio relies on Forrest's promise and buys the motorless boat, Forrest cannot then deny his promise to sell Antonio the motor at the agreed-upon price.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog 2009

  • Among other things, he was on some kind of self-propelled motorless scooter.

    Platinum Aliya S. King 2010

  • Among other things, he was on some kind of self-propelled motorless scooter.

    Platinum Aliya S. King 2010

  • Check it out, learn by example, and scour your own video libraries for that rubber shark, that stuffed lion, that motorless second hand octopus whose floppy plight once touched your heart and then put your pain in writing.

    Here, Dummy Dummy Arbogast 2009

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