bedspring

bedspring

English

Etymology

bed +‎ spring

Noun

bedspring (plural bedsprings)

1. A springy surface that supports the mattress of a bed.
   • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Knopf, Part One,

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

Hyponyms

• box spring

Translations

bed springs

Taos: supòno’óna