Meanings
- not comparableWithout zones; unzoned.
1988, Aniko Varpalotai, “Ringette: The Sport for Girls,” Orbit, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Volume 19, No. 3, October 1988, p. 10, […] ringette players are agitating for zoneless play which would make the game faster and more demanding.
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In this style of defense he is the one zoneless player, being able to cross into either of the zones as he is needed.
1983, Robert Pollock, “Tactics”, in Soccer for Juniors, New York: Scribner, page 109 - archaicliterarynot comparableWithout a belt or girdle.
Clos’d was her eye, and from her heaving breast In careless folds loose flow’d her zoneless vest;
1749, William Mason, Isis: An Elegy, London: R. Dodsley, page 71 more example
Thou art not known where pleasure is adored, That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist And wand’ring eyes, still leaning on the arm Of novelty, her fickle frail support;
1785, William Cowper, The Task, London: J. Johnson, Book 3, p. 94 - not comparablebiologyLacking bands or rings (particularly with reference to fungi).
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