OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 42250

mainspring

Meanings (ES + gloss)
resorte motor
The principal spring of a clockwork mechanism, which drives it by uncoiling.
He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.
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