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
A flame rose up widin me feeble heart, Whin passin' through me cabin's hingeless dure, I saw the mark of Shylie's coffin in The grey dust on the empty earthen flure.
From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Isabella Valancy Crawford
And however many times the carpenter might mend the door, it always remained hingeless, for she burst it open with her foot every time she brought in wood.
From Weird Tales from Northern Seas by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
No hingeless gates propped with sticks met the eye; no broken-down doors were to be seen on his barns; a master hand ruled the land, and his rule brought prosperity and happiness.
From Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth
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
