(n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.
(n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.
Example Sentences:
(1) She had been lying against a bedpost, resulting in compression of her anterior abdominal wall below the umbilicus, involving her right femoral nerve.
(2) "You know, my bedpost really has very few notches compared with other actors of my erm, erm, pedigree .
(3) A cotton cord was looped around her neck, with one end tied to a bedpost.
(4) There will be time enough to expound on how lesbian sex has a way of being outrageous – what with the use of bedposts, and clingfilm and handcuffs with fur in the middle.
(5) It happened one night, as devils danced on his bedpost: he looked out to the lake and finally lost contact with the real world.
(6) Wanda employs black maids to tie Severin to a bedpost, and tortures a tragically voyeuristic German artist by commanding him to paint her portrait.
(7) The following year he appeared at a Royal Variety performance, and in 1959 recorded his million-selling Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight - a new version of a Boy Scout favourite he had sung as a child.
Bedstaff
Definition:
(n.) "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."