Usually means: Spring attached at moving object's end.
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  1. trailing-spring, trailing spring: Wordnik
  2. trailing spring: Wiktionary
  3. Trailing spring: Dictionary.com
  4. trailing spring: FreeDictionary.org
  5. Trailing spring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (trailing spring)

noun:  A spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur.

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