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noun

Bedpost n.

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

Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.

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Etymology of 'Bedpost'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bedpost" Quotes from Famous Books

... "'ow's yer bloomin' 'ealth? That hold bloke of a Hirish haint in a 'urry to do the hamiable between 'is hold guvner's gal an' yours truly. My name, Miss, is Rawdon, Haltamont Rawdon, workin' geologist and minerologist, and, between you and me and the bedpost, ...

— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

... those days. We played tricks on one another, and had a deal of innocent fun and frolic. I was a little startled one night on retiring to find a huge goanna near the head of my bed. I called Harold to dislodge the creature, when it came to light that it was roped to the bedpost. Great was the laughter at my expense. Who tethered the goanna I never discovered, but I suspected Harold. In return for this joke, I collected all the portable docks in the house—about twenty—and arrayed them on his bedroom table. The majority of them were ...

— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... one last prayer to have his fate reversed, he saw an alteration in the Phantom's hood and dress. It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into a bedpost. ...

— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith

... came after dinner—a tall man in a frock-coat, bearing in his hand a silk hat, which, after a careful survey of the room, he hung on a knob of the bedpost. ...

— Night Watches • W.W. Jacobs

Words linked to "Bedpost" : bedstead