quarterless
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]quarterless (not comparable)
- Without quarter; merciless.
- 1922, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's magazine, volume 72:
- Many, long since outmatched in the quarterless battle for existence, still clung, bleached and ghastly, like upstanding skeletons...
- (US) That does not require quarters (coins) to operate