axeless

axeless

English

Etymology

axe +‎ -less

Adjective

axeless (not comparable)

1. 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.