helmless
English
Etymology
Adjective
helmless (not comparable)
- Without a helm (steering apparatus of a ship).
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- To Sleep I give my powers away;
My will is bondsman to the dark;
I sit within a helmless bark,
And with my heart I muse and say: […]