bedspring
- n (usually plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed
- But instead of a sky-scanning "bedspring" or "clam shell," there would be, in each likely target area, a device to force large samples of air through filters on which disease .
- With utmost precision, Powell measures the decline of a society in the curve of a false smile or the adulterous squeak of a bedspring.
- Philippe de Broca's bedspring farce, the first comedy turned up by the new wave of French cinastes, bounces along like the movies did when Rene Clair first made them.