Ant-bed

Quick meaning: Ant-bed is a noun meaning (Australia) Termite mounds, crushed and watered, used as flooring material.

Meaning

(Australia) Termite mounds, crushed and watered, used as flooring material.

Example Sentences

The floor was of ant-bed, the stuff of the termites' or white-ants' nests, which when crushed and wetted and beaten hard makes serviceable cement.

Gaudy fungi sprouted from the bark walls of the humpies, which were furred with green slime. The roofs, shrunk by the long dry season, and the green beams which supported them swelled and twisted and leaked at every joint, and the ant-bed floor came up in clods of grey mud on the men's boots.

Mum said Dad told her he would fix the problem. "We'll put down an ant-bed floor," he suggested. We collected ant-hills from the paddocks, crushed them, mixed the powder to a smooth paste with water, and then spread a thick layer over the dirt floor." Mum told me, adding, "The ant-bed dried hard enough to sweep with a broom. I dragged an old pair of trousers dipped in water over it to keep it hard."

Word Forms

• ant-beds
• antbed

Related Words

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