rodless
Lacking any shaft
Without a rod.
The term appears in technical contexts describing equipment or mechanisms that lack a conventional rod component: rodless cylinder, rodless pump.
In fishing contexts, rodless may describe techniques or anglers who fish without a rod: rodless fishing with handlines.
fishing
Recreational hook-and-line pursuit
line · sinkers · floats · casting · fly-fishing · reeling · catch-and-release · netting
absence
Lacking any covering
- devoidEntirely without
- strippedHad coverings removed
- unequippedLacking necessary tools
- lackingBeing without something
empty · without · missing · unprepared · unrigged
angling
Recreational hook-and-line pursuit
hook · line · sinkers · floats · casting · fly-fishing · reeling · catch-and-release · netting · spearfishing
bare
Lacking any covering
- devoidEntirely without
- strippedHad coverings removed
- unequippedLacking necessary tools