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steel spring
A spring made of steel (see spring n.1 22). Also transf. and fig.
1680Moxon Mech. Exerc. xiv. 242 Two strong Steel Springs. 1855Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 194 All these natural muscles and fibres are to be torn away and replaced by a patent steel-spring, anxiety for the ‘glory of God’. 1899Werner Captain of Locusts 3 Even as you looked, those wonderful steel-springs [a locust's hind legs] would bend, and send the creature forward.
Hence steel-spring v. trans., to fit with a steel spring.
1778Mickle tr. Camoens' Lusiad ix. (ed. 2) 392 Some store the quiver, some steel-spring the bow. |