Wheelless

Then he had quickly brought the plane forward, making it leap slightly and lurch upward, causing the wheelless landing strut to rise a few feet into the air . . . ❋ MATTHEW REILLY (2010)

Shamefacedly he entered the passenger compartment of the wheelless vehicle. ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)

With a swift rush the wheelless cab had risen from the nickel-cobalt roadway and lurched off into one of the express traffic lanes. ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)

The outbuilding's central area was empty save for an ancient tractor sitting wheelless on the massive stumps of its axles, but in one of the equipment stalls, the light of our powerful flashlight picked out a few rusty, left-over tools and a wooden ladder leaning against the back wall. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (2008)

All the other shelter proposals are basically stark, gray, cinderblock warehouses for humanity, poisonous, wheelless trailers left over from no-bid Katrina contracts, or even tents surrounded by guard towers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have been, in my time, belated on miry by-roads, towards the small hours, forty or fifty miles from London, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken postboys, and have got back in time for publication, to be received with never-forgotten compliments by the late Mr. Black, coming in the broadest of Scotch from the broadest of hearts I ever knew. ❋ Unknown (2007)

An old bicycle, wheelless and rusted, protruded from the lagoon bed beneath him. ❋ Tim Lebbon (2006)

DOBBS: And as you described it, the wheels off on this administration, and quickly finding itself wheelless. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Beyond the garage, in a field studded with juniper bushes, a woman was standing near a wheelless pickup truck. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had but few more downward steps to go and could picture himself soon dragging some wheelless sledge or travois, that or selling little trinkets from a pack on his back. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

The old one was a wheelless tank that gouged rips in the linoleum flooring every time we tried to move it. ❋ Grouse (2002)

He looked uneasily around the dusty front yard in which sat a wheelless pickup on concrete blocks. ❋ Jeffery Deaver (2001)

The walkway had steel railings, and wheelless bike frames were chained to the railings in front of half the doors. ❋ Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- (1997)