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grateless

  • a word derived from grate.
    grate
    noun
    a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.

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So raw and chill had been the atmosphere of the grateless garret that the window-frames had been fastened down, their rusty catches clamped.

From A Cathedral Singer by Allen, James Lane

The fireplace was now empty and grateless, and an ill-smelling gas stove burned in its sooty recess under the cracked marble.

From Youth and the Bright Medusa by Cather, Willa Sibert

On the other side was the living-room, with its undulating floor of stamped earth and grateless hearthstone in the ingle, to the right and left of which were seats.

From McClure's Magazine December, 1895 by Tarbell, Ida M.