bedspring
nounUS /ˈbɛdˌspɹɪŋ/
Etymology From bed + spring.
1
A springy surface that supports the mattress of a bed.
- This morning not even the cry of a bedspring disturbed the silence, and John seemed, therefore, to be listening to his own unspeaking doom.1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 1 (The Seventh Day):
- Hyponyms
- box spring