Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mattress formed of spiral springs or a fabric woven of coiled spiral wire, set in a wooden frame.
- noun 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.
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Examples
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Coosie and Carrie jumping up and down upon my spring-bed.
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There's a good spring-bed in it, and a kettle-ring for the whisky.
Angels & Ministers Laurence Housman 1912
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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.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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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.
The Little Minister 1898
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He was lying in a little spring-bed, set within two padded sides, like a berth in a steamship.
Dawn of All Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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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
Adam Bede 2004
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