bedtop
bedtop noun: the top section of a four-poster bed.
Noun
bedtop (plural bedtops)
- The top section of a four-poster bed.
- Down and down, without pausing and without sounding, came the bedtop, and still my panic terror seemed to bind me faster and faster to the mattress […]1858, Wilkie Collins, A Terribly Strange Bed
- The bedtop hitting his neck had been worked into the dream as his execution (Webb and Bonnet, 1979) of the dream that we remember when we wake up.1981, Zick Rubin, Elton B McNeil, The Psychology of Being Human
Forms of bedtop
| plural | bedtops |
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Origin of bedtop
From bed + top.
Questions about bedtop
- What does bedtop mean?
- Bedtop means the top section of a four-poster bed.
- What part of speech is bedtop?
- Bedtop is a noun.
- What is the plural of bedtop?
- The plural of bedtop is bedtops.
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