Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.
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- noun A
cord orrope interwoven in abedstead so as to support thebed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The rope was then fastened under the bedcord, and two or three times over her person.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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We slept on a bedcord and covered with a cow-hide.
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 Richard Lee Mason
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They then carried her to her room, removed the bed, and laid her upon the bedcord.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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They then took the nun from her chair and laid her on the bedcord.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson
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Had there been a bedstead of the right kind, the bedcord would have served his purpose, but there was no bedstead at all.
Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant Horatio Alger 1865
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The rope was then fastened under the bedcord, and two or three times over her person.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Richardson, Sarah J 1858
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They then took the nun from her chair and laid her on the bedcord.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Richardson, Sarah J 1858
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They then carried her to her room, removed the bed, and laid her upon the bedcord.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Richardson, Sarah J 1858
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"Let me know why you have put my sister to death, one of the best women that ever lived," replied the brother; "and why, under pretext of going to sleep with her, you have hung her with the bedcord?"
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Seeing her mistress hanging dead by the bedcord, and her infant smothered at her feet, the horrified servant went to the bedroom of the deceased's brother, and took him to see that sad spectacle.
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