BEDSTEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bedstead mean? 

• BEDSTEAD (noun)
  The noun BEDSTEAD has 1 sense:

1. the framework of a bed

  Familiarity information: BEDSTEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEDSTEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The framework of a bed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bedframe; bedstead

Hypernyms ("bedstead" is a kind of...):

article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)

Meronyms (parts of "bedstead"):

bedpost (any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead)

bedspring ((usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed)

footboard (a vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead)

headboard (a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead)

Holonyms ("bedstead" is a part of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

 Context examples 

Without Doctor Johnson, or somebody of that sort, we might have been at this present moment calling an Italian-iron, a bedstead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The captain, hearing me utter these absurdities, concluded I was raving; however (I suppose to pacify me) he promised to give order as I desired, and going upon deck, sent some of his men down into my closet, whence (as I afterwards found) they drew up all my goods, and stripped off the quilting; but the chairs, cabinet, and bedstead, being screwed to the floor, were much damaged by the ignorance of the seamen, who tore them up by force.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Above, a chamber of the same dimensions as the kitchen, with a deal bedstead and chest of drawers; small, yet too large to be filled with my scanty wardrobe: though the kindness of my gentle and generous friends has increased that, by a modest stock of such things as are necessary.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His bedstead, covered with a tumbled and ragged piece of patchwork, was in the den he had come from, where another little window showed a prospect of more stinging-nettles, and a lame donkey.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was his only room, I saw; for there was a sofa-bedstead in it, and his blacking-brushes and blacking were among his books—on the top shelf, behind a dictionary.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We made so many deviations up and down lanes, and were such a long time delivering a bedstead at a public-house, and calling at other places, that I was quite tired, and very glad, when we saw Yarmouth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Among the rest, she converted the pantry into a dressing-room for me; and purchased and embellished a bedstead for my occupation, which looked as like a bookcase in the daytime as a bedstead could.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The resources of this lodging were so limited, that we found the twins, now some eight or nine years old, reposing in a turn-up bedstead in the family sitting-room, where Mr. Micawber had prepared, in a wash-hand-stand jug, what he called a Brew of the agreeable beverage for which he was famous.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It being now pretty late, we took our candles and went upstairs, where we parted with friendly heartiness at his door, and where I found my new room a great improvement on my old one, it not being at all musty, and having an immense four-post bedstead in it, which was quite a little landed estate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

More than once, when I went there early, I had audience of him in a turn-up bedstead, with a cut in his forehead or a black eye, bearing witness to his excesses over-night (I am afraid he was quarrelsome in his drink), and he, with a shaking hand, endeavouring to find the needful shillings in one or other of the pockets of his clothes, which lay upon the floor, while his wife, with a baby in her arms and her shoes down at heel, never left off rating him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)