bedder

Noun

bed (countable and uncountable, plural beds)

1. (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
   • My cat often sleeps on my bed.
   1. (countable) A mattress.
      • I find her bed too soft.
   2. (countable) A bedframe.
      • That huge wood bed is too heavy for us to carry it that far.
   3. A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
      • When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket.
   4. (usually) One's place of sleep or rest.
      • Go to bed!
   5. (uncountable, usually) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
      • He's been afraid of bed since he saw the scary film.

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Noun

bedmaker (plural bedmakers)

1. someone who manufactures beds
2. (formal, historical, Cambridge University) A bedder.
   • Bedmakers have to be comic and dishonest. It is expected of them. In a picture of university life it is their only function.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 17]