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noun

Bedding n.

1.

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

2.

(Geol.) The state or position of beds and layers.

verb

Bed v. t. (past & past part. bedded; pres. part. bedding)

1.

To place in a bed. (Obs.)

2.

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. "I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her."

3.

To furnish with a bed or bedding.

4.

To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.

5.

To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. "Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded."

6.

(Masonry) To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

7.

To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. "Bedded hair."

Bed v. i. To go to bed; to cohabit. "If he be married, and bed with his wife."

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Etymology of 'Bedding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bedding" Quotes from Famous Books

... delightful picnic; here the young men met the maidens; in the long evenings when work was over they wandered about the lanes, making love; and the hopping season was generally followed by weddings. They went out in carts with bedding, pots and pans, chairs and tables; and Ferne while the hopping lasted was deserted. They were very exclusive and would have resented the intrusion of foreigners, as they called the people who came from London; they looked down upon ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... during the previous day, upon which the small quantity of provisions they had been able to collect, together with some of the baggage of the embassy, and clothes and bedding of the officers and men, had been ...

— Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 • William O. S. Gilly

... flying cinders for a breath of fresh air. Piles of furniture lay heaped on its greensward. Terror-stricken, weeping women had dragged it from their homes. In improvised tents made of broken tables and chairs covered with sheets and bedding hundreds of homeless ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... first supplied them with stoves, teams, and seed. In round numbers, in a little more than a year, $40,000 was used, and 500,000 pounds of clothing, bedding, etc. England contributed 50,000 pounds of goods and $8,000 in money; the chief givers being Mrs. Comstock's friends who knew her in her good work abroad. Much of the remainder had come in small sums, and from the Christian women of America. One third was furnished by ...

— History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George Washington Williams

... is allowed on the lower deck by night, and all is like sevenfold darkness! Each man has to put three hitches around his hammock—seven are the uniform number—but the enemy is in sight, therefore three hitches have to suffice to keep blanket and bedding together. The hammock is then unhooked, and if the bluejacket belongs to the former part of the ship, he has to bear it away for storage on the topgallant forecastle; if to the after-part, he carries it away ...

— From Lower Deck to Pulpit • Henry Cowling

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