fireless
adjEtymology From fire + -less.
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Without fire.
- a fireless cooker
- Nungi, hungry and weary, had come to a fireless and supperless hut, and, after firemaking, was busy preparing supper for himself and Woona—she sitting calmly watching him.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 262:
1 more example
- We had made a fireless camp.1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 5”, in Imago, page 202:
- Derived terms
- firelessly, firelessness