ant-bed
ant-bed noun: termite mounds, crushed and watered, used as flooring material.
Noun
ant-bed (usually uncountable, plural ant-beds)
- Termite mounds, crushed and watered, used as flooring material.
- The meat house had an ant-bed floor and the old blackboy and I dug that ant-bed out, carted it away about fifty yards and shovelled it into a gully. And then we built another ant-bed floor.1912, Fred King, "Born to Floods and Drought" in Marion Houldsworth, ed. Barefoot Through the Bindies, Salisbury, QLD: Boolarong Press, 2012, p. 112...
- Gaudy fungi sprouted from the bark walls of the humpies, which were furred with green slime. The roofs, shrunk by the long dry season, and the green beams which supported them swelled and twisted and leaked at every joint, and the ant-bed floor came up in clods of grey mud on the men's boots.1934, Brian Penton, chapter 18, in Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton, published 2006, page 120
Forms of ant-bed
| plural | ant-beds |
|---|---|
| alternative form | antbed |
Origin of ant-bed
From ant + bed.
Words formed from ant-bed
Questions about ant-bed
- What does ant-bed mean?
- Ant-bed means termite mounds, crushed and watered, used as flooring material.
- What part of speech is ant-bed?
- Ant-bed is a noun.
- What is the plural of ant-bed?
- The plural of ant-bed is ant-beds.
Words near ant-bed in the dictionary
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