Bedstead
the framework of a bed supporting the springs and a mattress.
historical examples
it was a large, dark, oak-paneled room, with a dark carpet on the floor and dark-green curtains on the windows and the bedstead.
capitola’s peril mrs. e.d.e.n. southworth
with the bed-key, which was in the closet, i took down the bedstead as quietly as i could.
seek and find oliver optic
first it might be a table or a cupboard, or perhaps a bedstead or a cast-iron cookstove.
ox-team days on the oregon trail ezra meeker
to the end of his weapon he fitted an iron washer taken from the bedstead.
crooked trails and straight william macleod raine
the people of the gambling-house kept their bedstead machinery a secret from us—even from the police!
stories by english authors: france various
he tried to find the door, but the top of the bedstead was now in the way.
dave porter and his rivals edward stratemeyer
the posts at the four corners of the bedstead stood like masts.
a master of mysteries l. t. meade
there were two chairs and a bedstead, with a straw mattress on it.
manco, the peruvian chief w.h.g. kingston
there was no bedstead, but an acc-mulation of rags in one corner covered two dirty little children.
the man with the book john matthias weylland
shut the door, put out the candle, turn me up in the bedstead!
the life and adventures of nicholas nickleby charles d-ckens
noun
the framework of a bed, usually including a headboard and springs but excluding the mattress and other coverings
n.
c.1400, from bed (n.) + stead; strictly “the place occupied by a bed,” but usually “raised stand on which a bed sits.”
used in deut. 3:11, but elsewhere rendered “couch,” “bed.” in 2 kings 1:4; 16:2; ps. 132:3; amos 3:12, the divan is meant by this word.
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