Definition of "knifeless" []

• Without a knife or knives. (adjective)

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• "Now I was knifeless in Japan, trying to get a long sliver of very tender, very expensive beef from my bowl to my mouth without either choking or dropping it in my lap."
• "But he did object to picnics; to the sudden departure of the family to wild surroundings for the consumption of cold, knifeless and forkless meals in the serious middle hours of the day."
• "The fortunate owner of this derived quite a little income of meal by shrewdly loaning it to his knifeless comrades."