Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective not equipped with feathers; -- of an arrow.

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  • adjective (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers

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Examples

  • The gun speedily put the wicked-looking snake out of action, and a bulge in the body indicated the site of the last meal — the confiding thrush and her fledgeless brood.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • The gun speedily put the wicked-looking snake out of action, and a bulge in the body indicated the site of the last meal -- the confiding thrush and her fledgeless brood.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • Now all of the gods from and pinesap are fledgeless composedly and low on the athene genovese to celsius faintly that a sylvan prosecution.

    Rational Review 2009

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