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sailless

sailless adjective: lacking a sail.

Adjective

sailless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a sail.
    • a sailless boat
    • a sailless windmill

Origin of sailless

From sail + -less.

Questions about sailless

What does sailless mean?
Sailless means lacking a sail.
What part of speech is sailless?
Sailless is an adjective.

Words near sailless in the dictionary

  1. sailing-ice
  2. sailing-master
  3. sailing-masters
  4. sailingly
  5. sailings
  6. sailless
  7. saillike
  8. sailmaker
  9. sailmakers
  10. sailmaking
  11. sailor

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