Meanings
adjectiverationless (not comparable)
- not comparableWithout rations.
The wagons stood out in the hot sun until the mush fermented and soured, and had to be thrown away, while we went rationless to bed, and rose the next day with more than usually empty stomachs[…]
1879, John McElroy, Andersonville
Origin
From ration + -less. Piecewise doublet of ratioless and reasonless.
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