rocklessadj.
/ˈrɒkləs/, U.S. /ˈrɑkləs/ Having no rocks; free from rocks.
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c1640 E. Waller Of Loving at First Sight ii 'Tis so rockless and so clear That the rich bottom does appear.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iv. i. 35 My hearts so plain..'Tis weedless all above; and rockless all below.
1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iii. i. 30 I'm clear by Nature, as a Rockless Stream.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Rockless, being without rocks.
1774 R. Potter Poems 60 Let my small barke..ride securely near the rockless coast.
1790 Scots Mag. Dec. 604/1 Fair Sylvia..Lay on a flowery turf oppress'd, The margin of a rockless stream.
1858 J. T. Barclay City of Great King v. 143 The ledges of rock far below it are so much more easily fortified than the smooth rockless surface above.
1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 328 The coast..is flat and rockless.
1916 J. Burroughs Under Apple-trees ii. 41 One might have a worse fate than to have his lot cast in a rockless country—a treeless country would be still worse.
1977 Lancs. Life Nov. 82/1 What, on its almost rockless coast, has the County Palatine got?
2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 10 Feb. d11 The low, flat, mostly rockless and treeless land between Arabia, the Persian plateau and the Zagros mountains.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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