smokeless
adjEtymology From smoke + -less.
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Without smoke.
- smokeless fuel
- smokeless gunpowder
1 more example
- The position will then differ little from that under previous legislation, but any infringement of the law will be much more noticeable in smokeless zones.1957 April 23, “The Clean Air Act and the Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 222:
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Engineering, Firearms, Government, Military, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Politics, Tools, War, Weaponry Of a gun, that does not produce smoke when fired.
- I run home, jumped in the bed, Laid a forty-four smokeless under my head.1971, Thomas G. Burton, Ambrose N. Manning, editors, Folksongs II, Research Advisory Council of East Tennessee State University, page 19:
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Of tobacco, to be consumed through methods other than smoking.
- Derived terms
- smokelessly, smokelessness, smokeless powder, smokeless zone