Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no chains; incapable of being chained or bound down.
- In machinery, without a chain: used to describe machines or vehicles in which at one time a chain-gear or chain-drive was used, but in which it has been replaced by direct gears and shafting: as, a chainless bicycle, a chainless motor-car, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.
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- adjective Without a
chain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Brave, brilliant and unsettlingly wild, the author of "Wuthering Heights" left much less of a personal record than her sister Charlotte, but the fragmentary evidence shows that Emily Brontë was very much what she said she hoped to be: "Through life and death, a chainless soul / With courage to endure."
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Once the technology improved enough to lower prices—as it had with the safety and chainless bicycles—cultural acceptance would drizzle down toward the masses.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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A photograph of the event captured the full range of the Pope hegemony: Roosevelt in a Columbia electric, riding along the fine streets of Hartford, flanked by Secret Service on Columbia chainless bicycles.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Once the technology improved enough to lower prices—as it had with the safety and chainless bicycles—cultural acceptance would drizzle down toward the masses.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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As bikes became more affordable—and, with the invention of the Columbia “chainless” in the mid-1890s, more rideable—this frontier yearning engrossed a wider population.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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As bikes became more affordable—and, with the invention of the Columbia “chainless” in the mid-1890s, more rideable—this frontier yearning engrossed a wider population.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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"Only by there being a greater proportion of chainless buyers can we return to a more fluid market."
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A photograph of the event captured the full range of the Pope hegemony: Roosevelt in a Columbia electric, riding along the fine streets of Hartford, flanked by Secret Service on Columbia chainless bicycles.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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A photograph of the event captured the full range of the Pope hegemony: Roosevelt in a Columbia electric, riding along the fine streets of Hartford, flanked by Secret Service on Columbia chainless bicycles.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Once the technology improved enough to lower prices—as it had with the safety and chainless bicycles—cultural acceptance would drizzle down toward the masses.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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