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Definition of Turfless
1. a. Destitute of turf.
Definition of Turfless
1. Adjective. Without turf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Turfless
1. having no turf [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turfless
Literary usage of Turfless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal KnowledgeEncyclopedias and dictionaries (1918)
"Of the total area of the Cordilleran province, three-eighths are forested mountains,
one- eighth plateau and one-half waterless, treeless, turfless mountain ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... free : Hun the same laws the same protection yield, Who plows the furrow, or
who owns the lield. Unlike, where tyranny the rod maintains O'er turfless ..."
3. The American in Paris by John Sanderson (1838)
"Fancy only, without a single inequality, a horizontal plain of an hundred or more
acres, or rather a barren moor, a ball-alley, a baked and turfless common, ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"I might have spared my idle prayer; They coldly laugh'd—and laid him there: The
flat and turfless earth above The being we so much did love; ..."
5. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"The jailers " Coldly laugh'd—and laid him there: The flat and turfless earth
above The being we so ..."
6. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"... The glorious stars stand sentinels on high, While in sad requiem, near their
turfless graves, The winding river murmurs, mourning, by. ..."
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