(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.
Bedstead
Definition:
(n.) A framework for supporting a bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) Floral wallpaper, curlicued carpet, bedstead in burgundy and gold.
(3) I peer in at the old bedstead and table: life was abominably hard here, and people were often forced to leave when their luck turned.
(4) Rumour that it is as ascetic and simple as Hollande himself – boasting a plain iron bedstead, an ancient television set, a couple of spare suits, shirts and ties, a few books and little else – are true, said Claudine Heiderich, Hollande's assistant.
(5) The two rooms, Edinburgh and Glasgow (with its iron bedstead) are charming and cosy, and the guest lounge has an original wooden floor, log fire and shelves crammed with maps and books on Skye.
(6) And anyone who chooses not to see that has been wilfully latex blindfolded and tied to a bedstead of betrayal by the Anne Summers Beginners’ Bondage Kit of political expediency.