hinge
noun
a jointed device or flexible piece on which a door, gate, shutter, lid, or other attached part turns, swings, or moves.
hingeless
-
a word derived from
hinge.
Example Sentences
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The stove door still hung hingeless in his hand.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
There was no gate for the passage of teams; the road ended there, and a rough sign nailed to a hingeless wicket warned the wayfarer to "Keep Out."
From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson
This hingeless condition of the gate, however, is, I must in fairness state, neither Jack's nor our fault.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
Without liberty, the brain is a dungeon, where the chained thoughts die with their pinions pressed against the hingeless doors.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
Between fields along the river bottom were gates distressingly crude; clumsy, hingeless panels of board fence, which I must dismount and lift about by sheer brawn of shoulder.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
