Boatless vs Batless - What's the difference?
boatless | batless |
(rare) Without bats (the winged mammals).
* 1986 , John Sherry, Maggie's Farm
* 2010 , Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle (page 145)
As adjectives the difference between boatless and batless
is that boatless is without a boat or boats while batless is (rare) without bats (the winged mammals).batless
English
Adjective
(-)- 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...
- 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.