bedstock

Noun

bedstock (plural bedstocks)

1. The structural framework that supports a bed, which can include any of the headboard, footboard, side rails, and platform or slats, depending on the type of bed.
   • There was some medical evidence in support of the view of their accidental origin, but according to Dr. Ogston there was no blood on the bedstock where the nails were represented to have been: and as the woman had died from bleeding, this was not likely to have escaped being stained with blood, if...1873, Alfred Swaine Taylor, The Principles and practice of medical jurisprudence v. 1
   • Is it not often hard, and so hard that Ahitophel, a king's counsellor, who could not but have a well-made bed, could not sleep a wink in it? he leaped over the bedstock, and hanged himself , and slipped down to hell .1885, Samuel Rutherford, Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished, page 91
2. Beds that are available for commercial purposes.
   • Were this sector to be even further penalised by additional taxation and administrative burdens, the effect would be either to (a) reduce available tourism bedstock and hence damage the UK's £74 billion tourism economy, and/or ( b ) require replacement purpose-built commercial bedstock, and thus...2010, David Weston, Louise Weston, Start and Run A Bed & Breakfast
   • The legal requirement to link the demolition and upgrading of old bedstock as a condition for developing new accommodation is especially important .2012, Victor T.C. Middleton, Jackie R. Clarke, Marketing in Travel and Tourism, page 446