icelessadj.
/ˈʌɪslᵻs/, U.S. /ˈaɪslᵻs/ Free from ice, not covered by ice; not supplied with ice.
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1800 Lady's Monthly Museum Jan. 80 Forth from the iceless clime he flies, As fast as fly he's able.
1853 E. K. Kane Lect. Access Open Polar Sea in U.S. Grinnell Exped. App. 544 The Polynya, or Iceless Sea.
1892 Daily News 7 Jan. 5/1 How are we to learn to love skating, with..a metropolitan experience of ponds iceless for years at a stretch?
1936 Confectionery Jrnl. 19 Mar. 130/1 Very many traders..are using iceless freezers.
1961 W. Brandon Indians i. 10/2 Perhaps they came during an iceless interglacial period, following only the ineluctable gradient of time.
2008 Vanity Fair May 238/3 [Some] circular depressions, known as ‘alases’..are empty craters from which the meltwater has drained as it found new exist in the iceless soil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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