bedtop

English

Etymology

bed +‎ top

Noun

bedtop (plural bedtops)

  1. (rare) The top section of a four-poster bed.
    • 1858, Wilkie Collins, A Terribly Strange Bed:
      Down and down, without pausing and without sounding, came the bedtop, and still my panic terror seemed to bind me faster and faster to the mattress […]
    • 1981, Zick Rubin, Elton B McNeil, The Psychology of Being Human:
      The bedtop hitting his neck had been worked into the dream as his execution (Webb and Bonnet, 1979) of the dream that we remember when we wake up.
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