squirrelless

English

Etymology

From squirrel +‎ -less.

Adjective

squirrelless (not comparable)

  1. Without a squirrel.
    • 1863 December 19, M. D. C., “Letter from London”, in The Commonwealth, volume II, number 19, Boston, Mass.: F. E. Kittredge, published 8 January 1864, →OCLC, page [4], column 1:
      Like Beecher’s dog Noble he has got into the habit of barking at that squirrelless hole, and cannot break it.
    • 1890, Kate Douglas Wiggin, “Scene IV. Pleasant River. Jabe Slocum Assumes the Rôle of Guardian Angel.”, in Timothy’s Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 45:
      [H]e was capering in and out of the woods, thinking what an Arabian Nights’ entertainment he would give the Minerva Court dogs when he returned, if return he ever must to that miserable, squirrelless hole.
    • 1981 May, Roger Finch, “At Haein Temple (Historical Site and Scenic Place No. 5)”, in Stations of the Sun, Boston, Mass.: Somerset Hall Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 52:
      We did find a matching dim, voices-held-below-a-whisper awe-full hush in its natural silence: birds held their song in the birdfooted branches; acorns refused to drop through the squirrelless shadows.
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