a. [f. TIMBER sb.1 + -LESS.] Without timber; devoid of forest-trees.
1845. Wisconsin Free Democrat, 19 Feb., 1/3. Do not these rivers so easily made navigable and running nearly parallel to and between the Father of Waters, and the Lakes, the Mother of Waters, which would open commerce between the forests of the north and the timberless regions of the south, and to New Orleans, do they not clearly indicate what is left for art and enterprise to accomplish?
1859. R. F. Burton, in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 140. Tracts of dense bush and timberless woods.
1870. Daily News, 15 Feb. Those prairie States … are mostly timberless States.
