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- n. A wrench, sometimes having sockets of different sizes, used in setting up bedsteads and in taking them apart: little used with modern bedsteads. Also called bed-key.
Examples
“She, loyal though excited lady of the castle, shifted her knight's helmet to the right-about and stuffed his buckets, bag, and bed-wrench into his hands.”
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
“The bed-wrench caught him directly between the shoulders -- a masterly shot.”
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
“I s'pose you feel like puttin 'on that piazzy hat of yourn and grabbin' your speakin'-trumpet, leather buckets, and bed-wrench, and startin 'for it," sneered Cap'n Sproul in a lull of the wind.”
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
“The bed-wrench, chief token of the antiquity of the Ancients, hung from a cord about his neck, and the huge bag, with a puckering-string run about its mouth, dangled from his waist.”
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
“He's fined one dollar for ev'ry time he's ketched without his hat, buckets, bag, and bed-wrench hung in his front hall where they belong, other members ten cents.”
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
“When the Cap'n scrambled to his feet, loaded with the bed-wrench for his next volley, the man turned and ran for his team.”
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
“Leather buckets, piazzy hat, speakin'-trumpet, bed-wrench, and puckerin'-string bag are in my front hall this minit," said Hiram, cheerily, "and the wife is gittin 'the stuff together for the feed and blow-out next week.”
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
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