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A framework for supporting a bed.

Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him…

A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.

An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.

One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.

"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

ccupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.

An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. Halliwell. Camp bedstead, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation. -- camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope…

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

A board forming the foot of a bedstead.

A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains. [Colloq.]

Articles used for convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

A bedstead. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.

Sofa bed, a sofa so contrived that it may be extended to form a bed; -- called also sofa bedstead.

A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. [R.] The genial bed, Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead. Dryden.

The representation of a tent used as a bearing. Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. -- Tent caterpillar (Zoöl.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive t…

A curtain rod for a bedstead.

To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.