2. Adjective. (sports) Without runs (in cricket, baseball, etc.). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Runless
1. scoring no runs in baseball [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runless
Literary usage of Runless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"A boundless hunter and a runless gunner see aye rowth o' game.—ALLAN RAMSAY'S
Scots Proverbs. Fortune, if thou wilt give me still Hale breeks, a scon, ..."
2. The Elements of the Differential Calculus: Comprehending the General Theory by John Radford Young, Michael O'Shannessy (1833)
"... and it is obvious that h will always be subject to such restrictions runless
the development holds, not merely for x = a, but universally. ..."
3. Balderscourt; Or, Holiday Tales. by Henry Cadwallader Adams (1866)
"Is it not one of our strictest laws that whoever discovers any of our hiding-places
shall be shot forthwith, runless he consents to join us ? ..."
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