springless
Americanadjective
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having no springs.
a springless bed.
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lacking liveliness or resilience; lifeless.
His shoulders drooped and his walk had become springless.
Etymology
Origin of springless
Example Sentences
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Banded together in springless trucks and dusty cattle cars, the rubber troops began their trek.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Lighters daily haul water to springless Skorpios, whose slopes are now luxuriantly planted with cypresses, oleanders and fruit trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
This has the added advantage of making springless land almost unsalable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suffocated with heat and dust, we were ourselves bumping along in a springless kärra, when our attention was first arrested by—what? let us say a huge basin built on piles.
From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
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