ˈbedstock
[see stock.]
Earlier name of a bedstead, or rather of its front and back parts, between which the cross staves or rungs were laid; still used in the north.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 25 Bedstoke. sponda, fultrum. 1534 Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 189 A peire of bedstockes & an olde presse. 1599 Harsnet Agst. Darell 181 His toe rapping on the Ende of the Bedstocke. 1624 Invent. in Archæol. (1884) XLVIII. i. 139 A bed stockes, a matteresse, a boulster. 1822 T. Bewick Mem., note 43 Trunks of two old trees..answer the..purpose of bed-stocks. 1864 Atkinson Whitby Gloss., Bedstocks, the frame of the bedstead for the sacking on which the mattress and bed rest. |