box spring

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   a coiled bedspring in a frame that is covered with cloth

   Broaderbedspring

Questions about box spring

What does box spring mean?

box spring means "a coiled bedspring in a frame that is covered with cloth".

Is box spring a common word?

box spring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.