Working together, the frame, box-spring, and mattress make up a bed.

The Clunes are found to have smuggled a modern box-spring into their home.

Due to storing one bed beneath the other, neither bed usually has a box-spring.

I lay on a mildewed mattress, elevated by a box-spring framed in steel.

A box-spring consists of a rigid frame containing extra-heavy-duty springs.

The rusty ghosts of the coils in a box-spring long departed were tattooed into the mattress's yellow hide.

The purpose of the box-spring is threefold:

Usually the box-spring is placed on top of a wooden or metal bedframe which sits on the floor and acts as a brace.

The box-spring squealed.

A box-spring is a type of bed base typically consisting of a sturdy wooden frame covered in cloth, and containing springs.

There was a small slit in the bottom of her box-spring where she sometimes stashed cigarettes, comic books, and, just lately, film and fashion magazines.

Late 19th century: The box-spring is invented to distribute weight and act as a shock absorber, thereby lengthening the life of an innerspring mattress.

The box-spring is usually the same size as the much softer mattress which is placed above the box-spring.

This platform provides adequate, flexible support and ventilation for a mattress by itself, eliminating the need for a box-spring or a second mattress as a foundation.

Some co-sleeping advocates also recommend that the baby should only sleep next to the mother, on the outside of the bed with mattress on the floor (without a box-spring).

The actual date for the invention of the first platform bed is impossible to pinpoint due to the basic fact that the modern box-spring was not invented until the mid-1860s.

"That should go first," he said, pointing to the shattered hulk of an abandoned car and a heap of debris that included a mattress and rusted box-spring.

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It is common to find a box-spring and mattress being used together without the support of a frame underneath, the box spring being mounted directly on casters standing on the floor.

The box spring broke when we moved into this house several years ago.

A new box spring and mattress have since been delivered.

She turned it and gasped as the box sprang open.

At some point the box spring itself had been carved out and reinforced.

He pushed the button, and the top of the box sprang open.

Slip the child between the mattress and box spring, sit on the bed.

The corner of the sheet was back between the mattress and the box spring.

They stepped across the floor joists to a box spring.

"It was under his bed, tucked up in the box springs."

They had dragged the bed frame and box springs in front of the window.

He was a box spring maker, and she worked for 10 years at a silk mill.

Then the front of the box sprang open and it flashed in, to curl up.

This fall, it will introduce a new box spring that is only four inches high, instead of the standard seven.

In one corner were metal box springs, raised off the floor by chairs.

When they made love, the rusty box spring had counted the beats.

The mattress was on the floor, without benefit of a bed frame or box springs.

The box sprung to life with a dozen blinking lights.

She turned and reached between her mattress and box spring.

He moved the mattress around, slid his hand under the box spring, opened the closet.

When the elevator opened, she grinned at the box springs that filled the car.

The mattress sank down to the box spring and creaked.

Two units can be stacked for additional storage if no box springs are used.

Sure enough, a small box spring supported the mattress.

It uses a conventional box spring and mattress, sold separately.

I moved to the bed and slid my hand between the box spring and mattress.