pulleyless

adj

pulleyless

adj

Etymology From pulley + -less.

1

Without a pulley.

  • The drawing-room of the tenement mentioned just now, with its pictures, and pulleyless windows, and lockless doors, was tenanted by a friend who lodged there with a sick wife and a couple of little children, one of whom was an infant in arms.1843, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Cork”, in The Irish Sketch Book, London; Glasgow: Collins’ Clear-type Press, →OCLC, pages 101–102:

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