Definitions
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- adjective Without
rubber (the material).
Etymologies
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rubber + -less
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Examples
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He stood sprayed by a Niagara of sound -- the crash of the elevated trains, clanging cars, pounding of rubberless tires and the antiphony of the cab and truck-drivers indulging in scarifying repartee.
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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These were as obvious to conjecture as some other turnouts, which I fancied of a decayed ancestrality: cumbrous landaus and victorias, with rubberless tires, which grumbled and grieved in their course for the
London Films William Dean Howells 1878
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And just to be clear here — if the rubberless paratrooper had ignored Nick’s withdrawl of consent, would that have been rape?
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