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wheelless

  • a word derived from wheel.
    wheel
    noun
    a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.

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“For them to make a law against selling bikes, it’s no different than selling furniture or anything else,” Johnson said, pointing to a wheelless pink frame that her husband is working on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

Large piles of wheelless bikes stacked alongside tents and lean-tos are a permanent fixture in many homeless encampments throughout Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

The courtyard on the side of Reverte’s building was a slim space, full of yellowing vegetation, several pink flamingos, and a wheelless 1957 Chevy on cement blocks.

From Slate ● May 29, 2021

There were bags under his eyes that would crowd an overhead compartment, but he was still recognizable from that 1966 Lord Snowdon photograph of a young man trying to ride a wheelless bicycle.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018

There, in wild disorder, lay thirty or forty lorries and cars, burnt, twisted, wheelless, broken, ravaged, while on the wooden sides the German eagle, black on white, was marked.

From The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold