coallessadj.
/ˈkəʊlləs/, U.S. /ˈkoʊ(l)ləs/ Having no coal; lacking coal.
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1770 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note I. ii. 22 During this coal-less week, I often heard my father blowing his fingers, and saying, O that I had but a single sack of coals!
1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 207 Wood for fuel, so indispensable in a coalless country.
1882 Standard 25 Jan. 5/3 Strata..older than the carboniferous, and coalless.
1946 World Today Apr. 145 The breakdown of coal production and its transportation in 1945 and the prospect of a coalless winter led to tree felling throughout France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany on an unprecedented scale.
2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 8 Apr. 39 The icy winter of 1946-47, when an almost coalless Germany faced sub-zero temperatures month after month.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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