bedspring

Definitions

Examples

• They remove wooden slats from the bedsprings on their mattresses and attempt to pry up an opening.

• At least there you’ve eliminated sounds from the headboard and the bedsprings.

• When they reached him, they helped him onto the bedspring and headed back to safety.

• Lugging a bedspring, they slid down the steep ravine and into the brush, slowly working their way toward their wounded comrade.

• Then, some time before sunrise, the rattle of milk-carts remind me of Mrs. Milliken's bedspring and mattress, and I go to bed.

• He heard the creaking of his bedspring and the soft pat of Scotty's bare feet as his pal swung to the floor.

• Sometimes his father comes out to see him—an old fellow with bedspring whiskers.