What is "handleless"

Usage examples of "handleless".

David brings three thick-bottomed water glasses and a handleless coffee mug, which he gives to Father Martin.

Jondalar came over to them and lowered himself carefully to the grass mat beside Ayla while he balanced with both hands a watertight but handleless and somewhat flexible cup, woven out of bear grass in a chevron design of contrasting colors, filled with hot mint tea.

A diminutive female knelt at his knee and delicately poured a steaming liquid into the small, handleless cup that sat in easy reach of the Great Master.

The Great Master sipped from the delicate, handleless cup and rolled his eyes with contentment.

Each carried a tray with a finely decorated steaming pot and two handleless cups.

A diminutive, fragile-looking female knelt gracefully at the feet of the Great Master and delicately poured a steaming liquid into a handleless cup that sat on a low, lacquered table by his feet.

Mary Marino handed her a pair of handleless baskets piled high with bread and covered with cloth napkins, as Tony, laden down with casserole dishes, thrust a head out the back door and bellowed for his brothers, who came running to help.

Small handleless iron tools were left where they had lain, and a circle of counting stones on a string, shining wet.

The waiter had arrived bearing a tray with a large teapot and two handleless cups.

From behind one of the screens, a slim, pretty young woman appeared on quick feet to kneel beside the High Lord, offering a lacquered tray bearing a single cup, thin and handleless, of some steaming black liquid.

He went behind the counter that divided the kitchen area from the rest of the apartment and poured water from the pot whistling on the stove into two small, handleless teacups.

She was using the Japanese service this time, glazed white porcelain with black characters on the pot, and small handleless white cups.

And when the little handleless cups of clear brown liquid were passed around and they all drank and chatted, Mrs.

Lorrain was saying with an air of restrained animation as he stood sipping tea from a delicate Chinese handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were laid in the small circular room.

Taking a dollar and a quarter out of the handleless space shuttle mug, she let herself out of the apartment and walked down Mutual Street to the corner store.