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bed-key

bed-key is the alternative form of bedkey.

Meaning of bedkey

Noun

bedkey (plural bedkeys)

  1. (historical) An instrument for adjusting the tightness of parts of a bedstead.
    • There didn't seem to be much furniture in the house, but when we began to move it, it at once seemed to multiply itself with the rapidity of compound interest. We got all the clothes out first, in drawers and clothes-baskets, and tied up in sheets. Eliza wasn't much use. The only thing she could do...1905, Edith Nesbit, Oswald Bastable and Others, The arsenicators
    Synonyms:
    bed wrench

Forms of bed-key

pluralbed-keys

Questions about bed-key

What is bed-key the alternative form of?
Bed-key is the alternative form of bedkey.

Words near bed-key in the dictionary

  1. bed-in
  2. bed-ins
  3. bed-jacket
  4. bed-jacketed
  5. bed-jackets
  6. bed-key
  7. bed-mould
  8. bed-moulds
  9. bed-post
  10. bed-ridden
  11. bed-room

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