a. [f. FUEL sb. + -LESS.] Destitute of fuel.
1861. Sarah Parker Douglas, Poems (ed. 3), 35.
| Noucht ye ken o’ the sorrows this season imparts, | |
| In their fuelless hames, to wee shivering hearts. |
1897. The Saturday Review, LXXXIII. 6 March, 251/2. Eight days later the edge of the timber belt was reached, and after a week’s traverse of the ‘Land of Little Sticks,’ the party entered the fuelless wastes of the Barren Lands.
