fireless

From fire + -less.

fireless (not comparable)

1. Without fire.

   a fireless cooker

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 262:

     Nungi, hungry and weary, had come to a fireless and supperless hut, and, after firemaking, was busy preparing supper for himself and Woona—she sitting calmly watching him.

   • 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 5”, in Imago, page 202:

     We had made a fireless camp.