bedspring

A springy surface that supports the mattress of a bed.

Noun

  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,...

Origin

From bed + spring.

Forms

bedsprings

Hyponyms

box spring