Coach-building. A spring, shaped like the letter C, used to support the body of a carriage.
1794. W. Felton, Carriages (1801), I. 72. Named according to their shape … the S, the C, the … grasshopper spring.
1825. Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 1525. The springs … differ not from the present fashionable C spring.
1878. Mrs. Edwardes, Jet, xiii. 568. Her ambition is bounded by a brougham on C. springs.
1884. Times, 19 Oct. (Advt.) 2/5. An elegant light patent landau, brougham, patent cee-spring Princess Victoria and mail phaeton.
