From chape + -less. <span class="searchmatch">chapeless</span> (not comparable) Without a chape. c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act 3, scene 2, lines 46–47:...
Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture: Even in this almost peachless year, the trees were well fruited, many of them very well. <span class="searchmatch">chapeless</span>...
is to these buckles that the two […] The tip of a fox's tail. chaped <span class="searchmatch">chapeless</span> metal cap of a scabbard ^ Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Hunting". Cyclopædia...