Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spring, usually of spiral form, used in making spring-beds.
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Examples
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He was shaking now like a broken bed-spring and his teeth were beginning to chatter.
The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985
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The desperate voice from above was no longer quavering, it vibrated like a broken bed-spring.
Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967
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Flies were whining in great bed-spring spirals of sound, then going to the window to beat on it with their feet.
Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964
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Buckley heard the squeaking of a bed-spring and as his knees stiffened he spied coming toward him something white with two black streaks hanging half way down, which as the thing came into the moonlight, he saw to be long braids of dark hair.
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A barricade had been heaped up across the mouth of Novaya Ulitzaboxes, barrels, an old bed-spring, a wagon.
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A man who doesn't know a bulldog from a bed-spring isn't likely to be offering a thousand dollars to avenge the death of one.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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