Bedspring

//ˈbɛdˌspɹɪŋ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A springy surface that supports the mattress of a bed.

    "This morning not even the cry of a bedspring disturbed the silence, and John seemed, therefore, to be listening to his own unspeaking doom."

  2. 2
    (usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed wordnet

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spring

Example

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"This morning not even the cry of a bedspring disturbed the silence, and John seemed, therefore, to be listening to his own unspeaking doom."

Etymology

From bed + spring.

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