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Definition of Plugless
1. having no plug [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plugless
Literary usage of Plugless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naval Electricians' Text Book by William Hannum Grubb Bullard, John Thomas Tompkins, Amon Bronson (1915)
"the operator's instruments, connected so that five conversations can take place
simultaneously, there will be two hundred plugless switches. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1848)
"... a plugless word-spout' among orators of his sect, these, with a ' dim, dark
audience,' were there. Some wags had persuaded Mr. ..."
3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"Women, with tongues Like polar needles, ever on the jar; Men, plugless word-spouts,
whose deep fountains are Within their lungs. ..."
4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"... Men. plugless word-spouts, whose deep • fountains are Within their lungs.
• Children, with drums Strapped round them by the fond paternal ass; ..."
5. American Literature ; an Historical Sketch, 1620-1880 by John Nichol (1882)
"Women, with tongues Like Polar needles, ever on the jar : Men plugless word
spouts, whose deep fountains arc Within their lungs. ..."
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