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Definition of Helmless
1. a. Destitute of a helmet.
Definition of Helmless
1. Adjective. Without a helm (steering apparatus of a ship). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Helmless
1. lacking a helm (a steering system) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helmless
Literary usage of Helmless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck (1900)
"... I sit within a helmless bark," ] yet he hears at the end a clear call in the
language of faith, a tongue that has since the earliest times been very ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"Awaiting morn, such moni as mocks despair ; And she that bore the promise of the
world Within her sides, now hopeless, helmless, bare, At random o'er the ..."
3. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"The captains leave ; to helmless hands Are fallen their houses on these sands;
Their old wives wither in the rooms. Their children pause, with vision spent ..."
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