Definitions

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  • adjective Without a hinge or joint.

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  • adjective Without hinges; nonhinged.

Etymologies

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hinge +‎ -less

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Examples

  • A hingeless door in the front of the cube opened with a distinct pop as the seal broke.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • His chest ached, and he savagely shoved that thought aside as the hingeless door popped open, emitting a plume of acid-green smoke that spread and hovered protectively over the safe.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • A hingeless door in the front of the cube opened with a distinct pop as the seal broke.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • His chest ached, and he savagely shoved that thought aside as the hingeless door popped open, emitting a plume of acid-green smoke that spread and hovered protectively over the safe.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • His chest ached, and he savagely shoved that thought aside as the hingeless door popped open, emitting a plume of acid-green smoke that spread and hovered protectively over the safe.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • Only mad science would reverse engineer the human skull, discarding earstems for a hingeless frame that wraps the upper cranium.

    UFies.org: Random Linkage Archives 2010

  • A hingeless door in the front of the cube opened with a distinct pop as the seal broke.

    Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

  • The chairs are broken-down invalids; the wretched little hempen mats slip away from under your feet without slipping away for good; and finally, the foot-warmers are miserable wrecks, hingeless, charred, broken away about the holes.

    Father Goriot 2003

  • 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.

    Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

  • This hingeless condition of the gate, however, is, I must in fairness state, neither Jack's nor our fault.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

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