springless


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Adj.1.springless - lacking in elasticity or vitality; "went off with springless steps"
inelastic - not elastic; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure"
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Esther recognised him at once; she had often seen him before, though with her huge indifference for all that lay outside the circle of her love, she had never so much as wondered who he was; but now she recognised him, and found him ten years older, leaden and springless, and stamped by an abiding sorrow.
Some said he was poor, some said he was a wealthy miser; but he said nothing, never lifted up his bowed head, never varied his shuffling gait by getting his springless foot from the ground.
The springless frozen earth under Bert's feet felt strangely dead and heavy after the buoyant airship.
PerforMax Global, based in Aston, PA, serves multiple industries with high performance doors that are based on direct drive, springless technologies to achieve million cycle door solutions.
EverServe is a standard rolling door system with a springless barrel design with integrated shafts and an extended 500,000-cycle life.
The event could be called a tractor pull since it had one towing a springless bed salvaged from a mid-'60s Ford pickup converted to a shooting platform.