Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who manufactures beds or bedsteads.
- noun One who prepares beds for use; especially, in English universities, a man or woman whose duty it is to take care of the rooms and make the beds in college. Female bedmakers were forbidden in Cambridge in 1625, but are now usual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes beds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who manufactures
beds
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Examples
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Salute the bedmaker in my name — give my service to the cook, and pray take care of poor Ponto, for the sake of his old master, who is, and ever will be,
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"And the smell of smoke and brimstone, which so alarmed the bedmaker?"
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Simon Thorpe, 'e were bedmaker for E Staircase on Third Court and did Dr. Barton's rooms,' e come in the kitchen where me an 'Joe was cutting watercress, an' 'e were white like a ghost.
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The bedmaker, Simon Thorpe, indeed complained of the aftertaste of deviltry in Barton's rooms, and he left the college the night before last.
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"And the smell of smoke and brimstone, which so alarmed the bedmaker?"
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The bedmaker, Simon Thorpe, indeed complained of the aftertaste of deviltry in Barton's rooms, and he left the college the night before last.
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Simon Thorpe, 'e were bedmaker for E Staircase on Third Court and did Dr. Barton's rooms,' e come in the kitchen where me an 'Joe was cutting watercress, an' 'e were white like a ghost.
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Granted, I'm terrible at making beds, so that's not saying much when comparing to me, but put her daymaking skills against the Swedish champion bedmaker in a frenzied contest of making and mocking and many more m-words, and she'd still win.
bard Diary Entry bard 2002
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The melancholy business of hoisting the bedmaker aloft called for the combined effort of all three men.
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The melancholy business of hoisting the bedmaker aloft called for the combined effort of all three men.
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