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Bedstaff
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.