noun
definition
The framework that supports a bed.
Examples of bedstead in a Sentence
A bed had been made on a bedstead for the countess only.
We have an iron bedstead each, there is a stove for which fuel is supplied.
The electro-deposition of brass-mainly on iron ware, such as bedstead tubes-is now very widely practised, the bath employed being a mixture of copper, zinc and potassium cyanides, the proportions of which vary according to the character of the brass required, and to the mode of treatment.
If on the other hand he was short, he was placed on the long bedstead and his limbs pulled out until he died from exhaustion.
And when Paris eventually returns as Aphrodite's augur his galley is, of course, a flying bedstead.
When buying a bedstead with a mattress, use a mattress pad over the wooden bedstead with a mattress, use a mattress pad over the wooden bedstead slats.
Master suite The Master suite is furnished with a king sized bed and wrought iron bedstead with four poster ivory canopy.
Made from pine with a warm antique finish, the bedstead hides a second full-size single bedstead below.
Made from pine with a warm antique finish, the bedstead hides a second full-size single bedstead hides a second full-size single bedstead below.
The double bedroom contains a double bed with metal bedstead, bedside table and lights, hanging cupboard and chest of drawers.
A narrow staircase leads up to an attractive bedroom with an antique style bedstead.
Well, Waffles did that using the side of the wardrobe as the wall, and the pine bedstead as the floor.
When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white; and by the time the villagers had broken their fast the morning sun had dried my house sufficiently to allow me to move in again, and my meditations were almost uninterupted.
A little room by the shop contained a bedstead but no furnishings, and a little room over the shop a trunk and chests.
The part of the room behind the columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated with red light like a Russian church during evening service.
After a few minutes' bustle beside the high bedstead, those who had carried the sick man dispersed.
Natasha was lying looking steadily straight before her at one of the mahogany sphinxes carved on the corners of the bedstead, so that the countess only saw her daughter's face in profile.
Mitenka's wife and sisters-in-law thrust their heads and frightened faces out of the door of a room where a bright samovar was boiling and where the steward's high bedstead stood with its patchwork quilt.
With the help of a footman Tikhon brought in the bedstead and began putting it up.
During the third night the countess kept very quiet for a few minutes, and Natasha rested her head on the arm of her chair and closed her eyes, but opened them again on hearing the bedstead creak.