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English
Etymology
From spring + borne.
Adjective
springborne (not comparable)
- Supported by (mechanical) springs.
1960 August, G. Freeman Allen, “The new diesel-electric luxury Pullman units of British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 475:The Pullman trains are the first B.R. diesel multiple-units to have fully springborne traction motors, which employ a Brown Boveri spring drive to the road wheels.
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