a. [f. TOOL sb. + -LESS.] Having no tools; destitute of tools.

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1831.  Fraser’s Mag., III. 13.

        Art thou lonely, idle, friendless, toolless, nigh distract,
Hand in bosom; jaw, except for chewing, ceased to act?

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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.

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1889.  H. O. Pentecost, in 20th Cent. (N. Y.), 30 March, 93/1. So low has the landless and toolless man fallen that work seems to him now the greatest boon in life.

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