springborne
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Supported by (mechanical) springs.
Example Sentences
- "The motors are attached to the bogie frames so as to be fully springborne, and drive through quills and flexible couplings to the wheels."
- "The Pullman trains are the first B.R. diesel multiple-units to have fully springborne traction motors, which employ a Brown Boveri spring drive to the road wheels."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
spring-borne (alternative)