Oarless vs Barless - What's the difference?
oarless | barless |
Lacking bars
* {{quote-book, year=1883, author=Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, title=To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The French have re-occupied a fort twenty miles up the pretty barless river, the outlet of a great lagoon; it was abandoned during the Prusso-Gallic war. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts, title=The Story of the "9th King's" in France, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Such an ardour possessed the men for the fight that in some it reached the pitch of fear lest they should arrive too late upon the battlefield and receive only a barless medal. }}
Lacking a bar
* {{quote-news, year=2000, date=July 14, author=Done Rose, title=The Grub Game, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The regulars were left barless but, like the White Russians of Paris and the Cubans of Miami, they religiously awaited the day they could return. }}
As adjectives the difference between oarless and barless
is that oarless is without oars while barless is lacking bars.barless
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