"quarterless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From quarter + -less.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1922, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's magazine, volume 72:",
          "text": "Many, long since outmatched in the quarterless battle for existence, still clung, bleached and ghastly, like upstanding skeletons...",
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      "glosses": [
        "Without quarter; merciless."
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        "not-comparable"
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      "glosses": [
        "That does not require quarters (coins) to operate"
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        "(US) That does not require quarters (coins) to operate"
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  "word": "quarterless"
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  "etymology_text": "From quarter + -less.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1922, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's magazine, volume 72:",
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        "Without quarter; merciless."
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          "merciless",
          "merciless"
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        "That does not require quarters (coins) to operate"
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        "(US) That does not require quarters (coins) to operate"
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  "word": "quarterless"
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