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horseless

horseless adjective: without a horse.

horseless: without a horse
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Adjective

horseless (not comparable)

  1. Without a horse.
    • The stealthy Apaches waited until their pale-face friends were well asleep, and then with a piece of cow-hide, hard and thin, sawed out a section of the adobe wall, at the other end of the corral, and in the morning Los Americanos found themselves horseless and muleless.1877, James F. Rusling, The Great West and Pacific Coast..., p. 402
    • As she puts it, "The flat green world of my parents' hogless, horseless farm – its dullness, its flies, its quiet ripped open daily by the fumes and whining of machinery – twisted away and left me with a brilliant city life of books and films and witty friends."2009 September 6, Barbara Carey, “The trials of mid-America”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2009

Origin of horseless

From horse + -less.

Words formed from horseless

Phrases with horseless

Questions about horseless

What does horseless mean?
Horseless means without a horse.
What part of speech is horseless?
Horseless is an adjective.

Words near horseless in the dictionary

  1. horselaugh
  2. horselaughs
  3. horselaughter
  4. horseleech
  5. horseleeches
  6. horseless
  7. horseless carriage
  8. horseless carriages
  9. horselessness
  10. horselet
  11. horselets

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