trackless

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Etymology

track +‎ -less

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Adjective

trackless

trackless trolleys in Cambridge, MA (USA)
  1. Not having tracks or paths; untrodden.
    • 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Bride, Act 1, Dramas 3, page 296
      Solitude in trackless deserts,
      Where locusts, ants, and lizards poorly thrive,
    • 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved:
      "You got two feet, Sethe, not four," he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet.
    • 2015, Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy:
      It had probably at one point been meant for servants to use to go unobtrusively back and forth, but hadn't been used in years; the floor was dusty and trackless.
  2. Not following a track.
    • 1838, Eliza Cook, The Waters:
      What was it that I loved so well about my childhood's home? / It was the wide and wave-lashed shore, the black rocks crowned with foam! / It was the sea-gull's flapping wing, all trackless in its flight, / Its screaming note, that welcomed on the fierce and stormy night!
  3. (of a train etc.) Not running on tracks.
    trackless trolley
  4. Without any track; having had the track removed.
    • 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 59:
      The two structures remain in a remarkable state of preservation, despite finding themselves adrift and trackless in the County Down countryside, after the closure of the station and the line in the 1950s.

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