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English
Etymology
From axe + -less.
Adjective
axeless (not comparable)
- Without an axe.
1905, Scottish Mountaineering club journal: Volume 8:...it was probably this condition that caused the fatal accident to an ice-axeless tourist on Ben More ten or a dozen years ago.
1938, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Antiquity: Volume 12:Another chapter deals with the axeless microlithic culture...
1990, Linda Svendsen, Words we call home: celebrating creative writing at UBC, page 297:He wears his chain for a belt and, axeless, swings it for a weapon.
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