bedboxes

Noun

bedbox (plural bedboxes)

1. A box-bed.
   • In the NORTH ROOM, two bedboxes are built into one wall and hung with the same coarse striped silk as the fireplace.1967, Researching Design in New York, page 7
2. A nest box.
   • She was a good deal excited, and ran frantically into and out of her little bedbox, which had a hole at each end. Soon this tiny gust of rage passed over. She now, though running about her cage, indulging in little gambols, indicating grace and agility, struck off into a truly beautiful strain of...1892, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Bulletin - Issue 7
3. (slang) A very small bedroom that does not hold much more than a bed.
   • The rooms which in the introduction have been described as "bedboxes" are actually only about twice as large as the bed.1939, The Chinese Medical Journal - Volumes 55-56, page 170