plural of spring reverb

(nautical) A preventer stay, to assist the regular one; a smaller stay placed above the stays as a duplicate if needed.

In locomotives, an iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles.

A device for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring.

Of, from, or related to a period of Chinese history during the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty, usually reckoned from its founding at Luoyang in 771 BC until the Partition of Jin in 403 BC, considered to have begun the Warring States period.

A type of wheat that does not require vernalization and may thus be sown in spring for harvest in autumn or, if the climate allows, in the autumn for spring harvest.

(fishing) An angler's snap-hook or spear-hook. / A latch or door-hook with a spring-catch for keeping it fast in the staple.

(obsolete) The lower part of a forequarter of pork, which is divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without the shoulder.

(nautical) To ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; said of a vessel.

To begin to leak.