spring leaf

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spring leaf (plural spring leaves)

  1. One of the individual curved metal plates forming part of a leaf spring.
    • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 116:
      I nearly went through the cab roof, we broke spring leaves down the left-hand side of the truck and we had to jack the iceboxes back into place.