spiral spring

Historical Examples

• Two others were made and sent to the Dauphin of France, where Huyghens had obtained a patent for spiral-spring watches.

  The Old Furniture Book

  N. Hudson Moore

• With the people of court the tongue is the artery of their withered life, the spiral-spring and flag-feather of their souls.

  Pearls of Thought

  Maturin M. Ballou

• He had lengthened out now with a spiral-spring, cork-screw twist in his body, his index finger serving as point.

  Kennedy Square

  F. Hopkinson Smith