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bedticks

bedticks is the plural of bedtick.

Meaning of bedtick

Noun

bedtick (plural bedticks)

  1. A sheet used for enclosing the materials of a mattress, such as straw.
    • March 25, 1894, Alexander Berkman, "letter to Fedy", republished in 1912 in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
      Sleepless, I toss on the withered mattress. The ravages of time and the weight of many inmates have demoralized it out of all semblance of a bedtick. But the Block Captain persistently ignores...
    Synonyms:
    tick mattress, bed tick, bed-tick, tick

Questions about bedticks

What is bedticks the plural of?
Bedticks is the plural of bedtick.

Words near bedticks in the dictionary

  1. bedtable
  2. bedtables
  3. bedtick
  4. bedticking
  5. bedtickings
  6. bedticks
  7. bedtime
  8. bedtime procrastination
  9. bedtime stories
  10. bedtime story
  11. bedtimes

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