Meaning of bedstead in English
- Piece by piece her furniture was sold to supply their wants, until nothing was left in the room but a solitary bedstead.
- The poor woman told him that she had been forced to sell her bedstead the year before to buy food.
- There being no bedstead she had flung down some rugs and made a little nest for herself in the very cramped quarters the closet afforded.
- There were no bedsteads, and but few blankets.
- We had two rooms with a bedstead and sofa, besides lots of chairs, mirrors, tables, and flower pots.
Examples of bedstead
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Having unpacked, we both collapsed onto our narrow iron bedsteads for a brief nap and a serious planning session of our culture and entertainment for the week.
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It is clogged with old motor car tyres, old bedsteads, old bicycles and weeds.
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Carpets are as much part of domestic furnishing as a sideboard, a bed, a bedstead or bedding that goes on it.
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Every member should have either a bedstead with wire mattress or a camp bed.
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In the hardware and hollow-ware group of industries, which includes stoves, grates, bedsteads, tinplate goods, etc.
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Bedsteads (not being aseptic hospital bed steads) made wholly or mainly of metal.
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The council put a wooden bedstead into each room, and each house was supplied with a wringing machine.
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Approximately 9,000 iron bedsteads are available for disposal.
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We also have the jet-propelled wingless vehicle which in its young and immature stage was called the "flying bedstead".
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There is no rule for the height of bedsteads other than that set by public taste.
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I was informed that the price per bedstead was something less than is.
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Does that mean that the iron and steel producers contribute to all those bodies and that they all raise a levy for the bedstead manufacturers?
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It is too early to estimate the effect of the specifications recently published for bedstead ends.
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It has to be a wired bedstead as well, has it not?
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That hospital is now increasingly reliant upon voluntary efforts to raise funds for vital equipment and even for the replacement of bedsteads.
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