Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spring fitted to the gearing of a carriage.
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Examples
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Around them, the stone of the Tower rumbled and groaned, like a carriage-spring being twisted beyond its ability to return to normal.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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Around them, the stone of the Tower rumbled and groaned, like a carriage-spring being twisted beyond its ability to return to normal.
Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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Every shoe should be at least three-quarters of an inch longer, and from half to three-quarters of an inch wider, than the foot at rest, to allow proper expansion of these great "carriage-spring" arches.
A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896
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The driver was enabled by this ingenious substitute for a carriage-spring to "go ahead:" the rest was luxury, which the "Good-intent line" did not bargain for; so we were left to trim ship to our liking.
Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. Tyrone Power 1818
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On April 26, 1819, Thomas Wildey, the English carriage-spring maker, together with John Welch, John Duncan, John Cheatham and Richard
The Jericho Road W. Bion Adkins
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