trailing spring

English

Noun

trailing spring (plural trailing springs)

  1. A spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for trailing spring in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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