Adjective

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(rare) Without bats (the winged mammals).

* 1986 , John Sherry, Maggie's Farm

He assured me that we would be batless by mid-afternoon. When I asked what would become of the bats, he got rather shifty and said that the cyanide would drive them from the house...

* 2010 , Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle (page 145)

Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.

Adjective

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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= citation

, 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= citation

, 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 citation

, 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. }}