Handless
Origin
From Middle English handles, equivalent to hand + -less. Cognate with German handlos ("handless"), Icelandic handlauss ("handless").
Full definition of handless
Adjective
handless
- Without a hand.
- circa 1602 William Shakespeare, , act 5, scene 5:Together with his mangled Myrmidons, That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him
- Without a handle.
- 1812, John Galt, Voyages and travels in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811, page 106:She gave him a few coppers from the handless jug.
- 1836, The Metropolitan, Volume 15, page 148:One battered, spoutless, handless, japanned-in jug, that did not contain water, for it leaked.
- 2003, Manners... More than Etiquette, page 91:Chinese soup is sipped in a handless cup (Chinese soup bowl) with its own soupspoon.
- 2006, Elsieferne V. Stout, Dundy County Babe, page 44:The leftover dough from the loaves would be rolled out with a handless, wooden, rolling pin.