What is "springless"

Usage examples of "springless".

The scrawny, grizzled old man behind the wheel shifted gears, slowing the springless truck more.

I dismounted, stiff-legged, not really sorry to be out of the springless carriage.

Then the driver put the team into a ragged gallop and the heavy, springless vehicle jounced and clattered.

Over the cobbled streets, the springless vehicle provided a swaying, bumping, jolting and thoroughly uncomfortable ride.

But he did not often try to stand, for staying on his feet in the springless conveyance as it bounced and jounced from rut to rock to pothole along the ill-tended track was an effort foredoomed to failure, even given a plenitude of thick, stout oaken bars to which to cling.

Dyke pouring his coffee and handing him his plate of ham and eggs, and half an hour later took himself off in his springless, skeleton wagon, humming a tune behind his beard and cracking the whip over the backs of his staid and solid farm horses.

De Graaf lowered himself gingerly into the creaking and virtually springless seat.

De Graaf lowered himself, not protesting too much, into the springless, creaking passenger seat of the ancient Peugeot just as the radio telephone rang.

By taking away what the phrenologists call combativeness, we could doubtless stop prize-fight, but we might have a springless society.

But, like his companions, having quickly adopted the habits of the country, he had become a skillful and experienced horseman, and the mustang, after a few springless jumps, which failed to unseat him, submitted to his rider.

It was no light matter to drive fast in an age of springless carriages and deeply rutted roads, but the driver lashed at his two rough unclipped horses, and the caleche jolted and clattered upon its way.

It was a highly ornamented, springless vehicle of wood and gilded, something like a packing-case with a pole, or as we should call it in South Africa, a disselboom, to which the horses were harnessed.

Two or three miles farther down the road Reuben was holding in his horse, in order to cross a river, when he thought that, in the comparative silence of his springless wagon, he heard Robbie speaking behind him.

She could not remember to have heard the rattle of the springless cart as it was being driven off.

Thunder rumbled overhead as the conveyance rattled on its springless wheels over the cobbles back toward the jail.