bedsteadn.
/ˈbɛdstɛd/, U.S. /ˈbɛdˌstɛd/ 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.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 28 Bedstede, stratum.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 197/1 Bedde stede, chalit.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. iii. 7 Aboute Salomons bedsteade there stonde LX. valeaunt men.
1611 Bible (King James) Deut. iii. 11 Behold, his bedsted was a bedsted of yron. View more context for this quotation
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 167 A homely bed-steed made of willow.
1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 20 We bound our Lunatick..down to the Bedsted.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 352 Celebrated for its bedsteads of cast iron.
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