bedticks

Horace Guester was out in the barn stuffing straw into new bedticks, so Alvin asked Old Peg for use of the sleigh.

Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

For home furnishings, are listed such items as feather bedticks and bolsters, Irish bedticks, plain rugs, matting rugs, the latter showing importations from the Orient to England and thence to the Colony.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

Mother Wetherell said that, years before, when she was young she used to use this to make meal-bags and under-bedticks of.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

New canvas tents and new bedticks were being placed.

Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities of North Carolina, 1910 North Carolina Board of Public Charities 1910

Also two large fine Flanders bedticks, and two pair of large superfine blankets, two fine damask tablecloths and napkins, and forty - three ells36 of Ghentish sheeting Holland.

Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

This moss they boil and pick with their fingers, stuffing their bedticks with it, so as to make a soft and springy bed.

The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901

He warmed to his work now, and towels, pans, crockery, brooms, mirrors, pillows, and bedticks were rapidly set aside in two groups on the soft soil.

Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

Once an Indian fired through a port-hole into the bedchamber, and the burning gun-wad landed on one of the straw bedticks.

For the Liberty of Texas Edward Stratemeyer 1896

Checked linen, with bars of red or blue, was much used for bedticks, pillow-cases, towelling, aprons, and even shirts and summer trousers.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

Wash bedticks, after the feathers are removed, like other things.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839