a. [f. TOOL sb. + -LESS.] Having no tools; destitute of tools.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., III. 13. Art thou lonely, idle, friendless, toolless?
1877. Daily Even. News (Fall River, MA), 15 June, 2/1. Nor is the poor, ignorant, landless and toolless negro anything to-day, but a priah. He is a slave in everything but the name.
1889. H. O. Pentecost, in 20th Cent. (N. Y.), 30 March. So low has the landless and toolless man fallen that work seems to him now the greatest boon in life.
