Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mattress formed of spiral springs or a fabric woven of coiled spiral wire, set in a wooden frame.
- n. In a cloth-shearing machine, a long elastic plate of steel fastened to the framing of the machine to press the fibers of the cloth within the range of the cutting edges.
Examples
“Coosie and Carrie jumping up and down upon my spring-bed.”
“There's a good spring-bed in it, and a kettle-ring for the whisky.”
“I then went up to the top of the tower, lit the candles, and ate voraciously of the dinner which I had left ready, for since the morning I had taken nothing; and then, with hands and heart that quivered, I arranged the clothes of the low spring-bed upon which to throw my frame in the morning hours.”
“Linn, who possessed the pioneer spring-bed of Thrums, and always knew when her man jumped into it by suddenly finding herself shot to the ceiling.”
“He was lying in a little spring-bed, set within two padded sides, like a berth in a steamship.”
“It was asleep itself on the moss-grown cow-shed; on the group of white ducks nestling together with their bills tucked under their wings; on the old black sow stretched languidly on the straw, while her largest young one found an excellent spring-bed on his mother’s fat ribs; on”
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