a. [f. FORK sb. + -LESS.] Without a fork. (Worcester [1846] cites Phil. Mag.).

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1853.  Household Words, VII. 28 May, 301.

        Were there no claimants upon his cold charity:
Poor fellow-creatures, heart-void of hilarity;
          Fatherless, motherless,
          Sisterless, brotherless,
          Husbandless, wifeless,
          Forkless and knifeless,
Dinnerless, supperless wretches, to pray or beg.

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