a. [f. WHEEL sb. + -LESS. Without a wheel or wheels; having no wheels; not adapted to wheeled vehicles.

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1824.  Miss Ferrier, Inher., xxvii. The carpet … was … strewed with headless dolls, tailless horses, wheelless carts.

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1837.  Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald, 28 Jan., 4/4. The evils of the late storm might have been considerably alleviated by the use of these wheel-less carriages [sleighs].

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1848.  Dickens, Dombey, xxxvii. Withers … stood upright … behind her wheel-less chair at dinner-time.

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1897.  Q. Rev., Oct., 470. In many a rollicking expedition in wheelless Liddesdale.

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