boltlessadj.
Without a bolt or bolts (in various senses); not formed into bolts, as ‘boltless lightning’ (poetic).
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the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or not dangerous > safe or harmless
unshathyOE
unbalefulOE
unscathefulc1175
unscathelya1400
unscathing1437
unnoyingc1440
unshendingc1450
unnoyous1483
harmless1533
unharmful1538
unhurtful1549
dintless1558
white1567
offenceless1581
inoffensive1598
unhurting1613
illaesive1628
innocuous1631
unmalignant1633
innoxious1638
inobnoxious1659
unvenomous1659
innocent1662
unafflictinga1711
unmolesting1767
fangless1790
unharming1796
woundless1796
uninjurious1809
uninjuring1820
unmischievous1821
scarless1823
boltless1832
inoffending1853
defanged1920
non-injury1926
anodyne1933
declawed1945
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [adjective] > of gates, doors, windows, etc. > not locked or bolted, or without a lock
unlocked1454
unboltedc1580
lockless1591
latched1693
unpadlocked1846
boltless1902
1832 I. Taylor Sat. Evening xv. 248 The boltless thunders of the mere man of rhetoric.
c1877 Theodore Watts in Westm. Gaz. (1900) 15 Feb. 10/1 'Mid boltless thunder.
1902 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ & G. Gamble R. Kipling (ed. 3) 259 The boltless door.
1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 75 We shall go back by boltless doors, To the life unaltered our childhood knew.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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