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antbed

antbed is the alternative spelling of ant-bed.

Meaning of ant-bed

Noun

ant-bed (usually uncountable, plural ant-beds)

  1. (Australia, usually) 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...

Forms of antbed

pluralantbeds

Phrases with antbed

Questions about antbed

What is antbed the alternative spelling of?
Antbed is the alternative spelling of ant-bed.

Words near antbed in the dictionary

  1. antasthmatic
  2. antasthmatics
  3. antazoline
  4. antbear
  5. antbears
  6. antbed
  7. antbed parrot
  8. antbed parrot moth
  9. antbed parrot moths
  10. antbed parrots
  11. antbeds

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