单词 | provisionless |
释义 | provisionlessadj. Having no provision; without provisions. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > having no food meatlessOE fleshlessc1394 foodlessc1450 supperless1509 baitless1600 victless?1615 provisionless1781 cornless1828 appleless1830 victual-less1831 bread-and-butterless1850 faggotless1867 tuckerless1937 1781 R. Twining Jrnl. 2 Aug. in Sel. Papers Twining Family (1887) 11 The wooden horse could not have panted more eagerly for admittance than did the provisionless passengers..knocking at those closed gates. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 236 The air clipt keen, the night was fanged with frost, And they provisionless! 1853 Harper's Mag. Aug. 329/1 The dreaded ‘third day’ which was to see us provisionless at length arrived, and, instead of breakfast, I tried to fill the ‘aching void’ by drawing my belt a hole or two tighter. 1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 9 June There is the suffering of those whose interests are directly affected by the strike, the penniless purses and the provisionless pantries. 1921 Condor 23 193 We were forced to return to the isle. Here we were marooned, provisionless, for the rest of the day. 1989 M. Lane Literary Daughters v. 198 Mary Ann was left wondering whether she..would be left homeless and provisionless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1781 |
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