a. [f. COAL sb. + -LESS.] Without coal; destitute of coal.

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1862.  R. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 207. Wood for fuel, so indispensable in a coalless country.

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1882.  Standard, 25 Jan., 5/3. Strata … older than the carboniferous, and both coalless.

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