Dragging a wheelless stoneboat filled with rocks. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The other must be a lesser Rider; its skrode was small and wheelless. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Shamefacedly he entered the passenger compartment of the wheelless vehicle. From Wordnik.com. ["Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 3] Reference
An old bicycle, wheelless and rusted, protruded from the lagoon bed beneath him. From Wordnik.com. [Unnatural Selection] Reference
The old one was a wheelless tank that gouged rips in the linoleum flooring every time we tried to move it. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
DOBBS: And as you described it, the wheels off on this administration, and quickly finding itself wheelless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2005] Reference
Beyond the garage, in a field studded with juniper bushes, a woman was standing near a wheelless pickup truck. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
The walkway had steel railings, and wheelless bike frames were chained to the railings in front of half the doors. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Crew]
With a swift rush the wheelless cab had risen from the nickel-cobalt roadway and lurched off into one of the express traffic lanes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference
Then he had quickly brought the plane forward, making it leap slightly and lurch upward, causing the wheelless landing strut to rise a few feet into the air. From Wordnik.com. [THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS] Reference
He had but few more downward steps to go and could picture himself soon dragging some wheelless sledge or travois, that or selling little trinkets from a pack on his back. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Sarloo took him in the common vehicle of the Jockaira, a wheelless wain shaped much like a soup bowl, which moved quietly and rapidly over the ground, skimming the surface in apparent contact. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
Around us swirled traffic of every sort: machines, wheeled and wheelless vehicles pulled by animals and slaves, walkers, and riders on the backs of dromedaries, oxen, metamynodons, and hackneys. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
All the other shelter proposals are basically stark, gray, cinderblock warehouses for humanity, poisonous, wheelless trailers left over from no-bid Katrina contracts, or even tents surrounded by guard towers. From Wordnik.com. [There's No Place Like Home.. and it was right there all the time...] Reference
The outbuilding's central area was empty save for an ancient tractor sitting wheelless on the massive stumps of its axles, but in one of the equipment stalls, the light of our powerful flashlight picked out a few rusty, left-over tools and a wooden ladder leaning against the back wall. From Wordnik.com. [Duma Key]
I'd rather see 5 blue racks than one "modern" silver rack that will have a wheelless mountian bike rusting on it. From Wordnik.com. [BikePortland.org » Front Page] Reference
As Hugh passed the smithy, John Proudfoot was standing, hammer in hand, by the side of a wheelless wagon upheld by poles. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
The crowd outside had gathered about the wheelless landau which the carpenter and blacksmith had converted into a sledge. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
As he gave this advice he eyed the wheelless coach with a curiosity and disfavour which was almost apparent through his studious politeness. From Wordnik.com. [What Necessity Knows] Reference
It stood wheelless in a corner, with a large grey cloth over it, and the girls passing it with their one flickering candle looked at it a little askance. From Wordnik.com. [What Necessity Knows] Reference
There it stood, still wheelless, but occupied now by Sophia and Mrs. Rexford, the girls and the darning basket, while some of the children climbed upon the box. From Wordnik.com. [What Necessity Knows] Reference
The servants 'quarters, the big hen-house, the old stables with gables and sunken roofs, the staggering fences, the old blacksmith-shop, the wheelless windmill -- all were rebuilt or torn away. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of the Hills] Reference
He counted on his mental digits the remaining items of the defunct circus -- the tent, the clown's pony and cart, and the lion's den standing open-doored like a wheelless furniture-van across the street. From Wordnik.com. [Dixie Hart] Reference
I have been, in my time, belated on miry by-roads, towards the small hours, forty or fifty miles from London, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken post-boys, and have got back in time for publication, to be received with never-forgotten compliments by the late. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
I have been, in my time, belated on miry by-roads, towards the small hours, forty or fifty miles from London, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken postboys, and have got back in time for publication, to be received with never-forgotten compliments by the late Mr. Black, coming in the broadest of Scotch from the broadest of hearts I ever knew. From Wordnik.com. [Speeches: Literary and Social] Reference
"tax-cart" had slumbered wheelless in the back of the peat-shed, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
London, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken post-boys, and have got back in time for publication, to be received with never-forgotten compliments by the late Mr Black, coming in the broadest of Scotch from the broadest of hearts I ever knew. ". From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria] Reference
A stone boat was no boat at all, but actually a great, wheelless, wooden sled or sledge used to transport big building stones from the rock quarry, or round stones from the harvest fields where they were unearthed by the plow, to be dragged as deadweight upon a platform made with two wooden skids, and transported across the dry land to the construction site for use in the making of more stone walls and buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
The wheelless car is urged in vain. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
December 2004 wheelless. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
'S a-left the wheelless waggon-bed. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
"There've been wheelless vehicles built lately. From Wordnik.com. [Long Ago, Far Away] Reference
There, in wild disorder, lay thirty or forty lorries and cars, burnt, twisted, wheelless, broken, ravaged, while on the wooden sides the German eagle, black on white, was marked. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy Foreigner] Reference
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