Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The frame supporting a bed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A frame or framework, more or less elaborate, for supporting a bed: most commonly made of wood, but now often of iron, and sometimes of brass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A framework for supporting a bed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The framework that supports a bed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the framework of a bed

Etymologies

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bed +‎ stead

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Examples

  • a night between regulation blankets, on a straw mattress, with rank grass for a bedstead, is as comfortable as the peaceful slumber they enjoy betwixt their own white sheetings.

    The Civil War in America 1861

  • But one change did come, a change that rocked the foundations of society and sent clergymen flocking to their pulpits to condemn the new development: the twin bedstead.

    The Twin Bed | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • The bedstead is a four-poster, with a deal of old hanging and valance, and is, as I once said, probably connected with more than 24 Bs, — which I remember my hearers was pleased to laugh at, at the time.

    Somebody's Luggage 2007

  • Og, king of Bashan, these words are inserted: “For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants: behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron: is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.”

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

  • For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • I have seldom seen any furniture in the rooms, excepting a sofa or bedstead, which is an oblong wooden frame, with four legs, having a seat made either of reeds, and then called

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

    Deuteronomy 3. 1999

  • Messrs.A. W. Southard and Volney R. Sears, of Falls City, Neb., have patented an improved invalid bedstead, which is provided with ingenious mechanism for placing the invalid in different positions.

    Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures Various

  • Instead of using the night for sleep, you spend it in reading; your bedstead is a bookcase, your pillows a desk!

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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