boat bed
noun
1A type of bed having a high, prow-shaped headboard and footboard; (also more generally) any bed shaped like a boat.
2A boat that serves as a bed.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Harper's Magazine. After French lit à bateau, lit en bateau (both 1835 or earlier), and lit-bateau.
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- on the one (or the other) hand
- on the order of
- on the (or its) way
- on the (or one's) way
- on the (or one's) way out
- on the other hand
- on the outer
- on the outside
- on the outside looking in
- on the part of (or on my, their, etc., part)
- on the phone
- on the pig's back
- on the plus side
- on the port (or starboard) tack
- on the prod
- on the prowl
- on the quiet
- on the rack
- on the rails
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- on the right side of
- on the rise
- on the road