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springless

American  
[spring-lis] / ˈsprɪŋ lɪs /

adjective

  1. having no springs.

    a springless bed.

  2. lacking liveliness or resilience; lifeless.

    His shoulders drooped and his walk had become springless.


Etymology

Origin of springless

First recorded in 1675–85; spring + -less


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A crew of eight nurses, equipped with measuring rods and springless scales, will visit all ten provinces measuring and weighing men, women & children in their homes.

From Time Magazine Archive

This has the added advantage of making springless land almost unsalable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Furniture departments had only a minimum stock of rock-hard springless chairs, couches and beds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Banded together in springless trucks and dusty cattle cars, the rubber troops began their trek.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Old Hundred was then sung, and when its last notes had died on the night air the springless cart went jolting down the path.

From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine

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