box spring
noun
an upholstered bedspring composed of a number of helical springs, each in a cylindrical cloth pocket.
box springs
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pluralof box spring.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Mattresses and box springs, air-conditioning duct work, vinyl siding, and cut-up logs and branches are all piled up at curbs.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
Donated beds are delivered to new families, though some are so accustomed to sleeping on the thin mats of a refugee camp that they forgo the box springs and bed frames.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2016
On that sits as many as 2,000 individual coils used in the box springs, which are manufactured onsite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2015
Other concealed areas held a number of mattresses and box springs.
From Chicago Tribune ● Oct. 24, 2014
The larger pieces—mattresses, box springs, broken pieces of furniture—he left outside, leaning against the storehouse.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
