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bedstead|ˈbɛdstɛd|
[see stead.]
Strictly, the place occupied by a bed; but long ago transferred to the wooden or metal stand on which a bed is raised; the framework of a bed.
c1440Promp. Parv. 28 Bedstede, stratum. 1530Palsgr. 197/1 Bedde stede, chalit. 1535Coverdale Song Sol. iii. 7 Aboute Salomons bedsteade there stonde LX. valeaunt men. 1611Bible Deut. iii. 11 Behold, his bedsted was a bedsted of yron. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. viii. (1626) 167 A homely bed-steed made of willow. 1713Swift Fr. J. Denny Wks. 1755 III. i. 145 We bound our lunatick..down to the bedsted. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 352 Celebrated for its bedsteads of cast iron. |