bedded

Adjective

bedded (not comparable)

1. (often) Furnished with one or more beds; Having (a particular number or type of) beds
   • three-bedded room
   • S.L.M., Ward 20, sleeps in a two-bedded room with D.L.M., over the laundry.1903, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry - Volume 2
2. Having gone to bed.
   • All silent the bedded house, Silent as the tread of mouse, Save where House-maid Bridget keeps Snoring Orgies as she sleeps , And the Cricket's tender throat , Gives a shrill, unvaried note;1780, James Robertson, Poems, page 255
   • His bedded children dumb as death, Nor dared to speak aboon their breath;1849, James Kennedy, Poems and prose tales, page 103
3. Having lots of sexual experience; not a virgin.
   • the Queene, as being (I speake in the language of Canaan) the wedded and bedded wife to the king of glory .1630, John Boys (Dean of Canterbury.), The Workes of Iohn Boys, etc, page 927
   • Margaret, his "spouse" accuses John of impotency, having been his bedded wife for upwards of two years.1851, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 525
4. Lying flat.
   • And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, Start up and stand an end.1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
   • A second companion report presents a method for designing systems of vertical bolts to reinforce bedded roof.1956, Louis Anthony Panek, Principles of Reinforcing Bedded Mine Roof with Bolts, page 1
5. Forming or containing a bed or beds (a horizontal deposit of a mineral or ore).
   • This is largely because of their use in coal mines, although roof bolts are used in mining bedded deposits of all kinds potash (New Mexico) , trona (Wyoming), and ores of iron (Alabama), lead (Missouri) , uranium (Utah), lead-zinc (Utah), and copper (Michigan and Arizona).1956, Louis Anthony Panek, Principles of Reinforcing Bedded Mine Roof with Bolts, page 1
   • The acceptance of bedded salt as a viable nuclear waste repository will in part be dependent upon demonstration of the ability to effectively isolate those man-made penetrations, i.e. shafts, boreholds, and tunnels common to the repository site.1983, D. M. Roy, Selection and Durability of Seal Materials for a Bedded Salt Repository, page 3
6. Growing or arranged in a bed or beds (garden plot or area in which a large number of plants, seaweed, or shellfish are found together.)
   • Who lovest to see the hamadryads dress Their ruffled locks where meeting hazels darken And through whole solemn hours dost sit and hearken The dreary melody of bedded reeds In desolate places, where dark moisture breeds1876, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Sylvan Year ; The Unknown River, page 97
   • The cover crops mentioned are superior to a constant use of inorganic fertilizers were a continuous cropping of bedded vegetables are grown.1958, University of Arizona. Agricultural Experiment Station, Report - Agricultural Experiment Station, page 76
7. (often) With a bedding of straw, sand, woodchips, or similar covering the floor.
   • Hogs in the non-bedded house had significantly longer carcasses ( P < .01 ) than hogs in the bedded house.1965, D. L. Ballee, Joseph Hover Stafford, Kirk Leland Athow, Effect of Ration Preparation on Performance and Occurrence of Ulcers in Growing-finishing Swine, page 7
   • Loose housing with a bedded area overcomes the problem of mobility and allows physical contact between animals, but the animals are still housed in a restricted space and may not be able to escape completely from an aggressive dominant cow.2007, Jeffrey Rushen, Anne Marie de Passillé, Marina A. G. Keyserlingk, The Welfare of Cattle, page 148