socketless

When the Dora prisoners went on their rampage, the light bulbs in the rocket works were the first to go: before food, before the delights to be looted out of the medical lockers and the hospital pharmacy in Stollen Number 1, these breakable, socketless (in Germany the word for electric socket is also the word for Mother-so, motherless too) images were what the "liberated" had to take ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

It was moss-grown; it was worm-eaten; it was broken right in the middle; through its four socketless eyes, neighbored by the nettle, peered the thistle: -- the thistle!

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

It never has the conical steel socket that the Mandáya lance sometimes has, is always straight edged, and is set into the shaft in identically the same manner as the socketless Mandáya weapon.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

The line about Pandarus and the iron arrow-head may really be early enough, for the arrow-head is of a primitive kind -- socketless -- and primitive is the attitude of the archer: he "drew the arrow to his breast."

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

It was moss-grown; it was worm-eaten; it was broken right in the middle; through its four socketless eyes, neighboured by the nettle, peered the thistle, -- the thistle!

My Novel — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

It was moss-grown; it was worm-eaten; it was broken right in the middle; through its four socketless eyes, neighboured by the nettle, peered the thistle, -- the thistle!

My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

In Japan, Powermat recently began construction of the House Without Wires which will offer a socketless and wireless environment where electrical power is seamlessly integrated into the living environment.

HouseMediaNetwork.com 2009

In Japan, Powermat recently began construction of the House Without Wires which will offer a socketless and wireless environment where electrical power is seamlessly integrated into the living environment.

HouseMediaNetwork.com 2009

In Japan, Powermat recently began construction of the House Without Wires which will offer a socketless and wireless environment where electrical power is seamlessly integrated into the living environment.

HouseMediaNetwork.com 2009

In Japan, Powermat recently began construction of the House Without Wires which will offer a socketless and wireless environment where electrical power is seamlessly integrated into the living environment.

HouseMediaNetwork.com 2009