Bedstock
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bedstock is a noun meaning Beds that are available for commercial purposes.
Meaning
Beds that are available for commercial purposes.
More Meanings
- The structural framework that supports a bed, which can include any of the headboard, footboard, side rails, and platform or slats, depending on the type of bed.
Example Sentences
The legal requirement to link the demolition and upgrading of old bedstock as a condition for developing new accommodation is especially important .
Is it not often hard, and so hard that Ahitophel, a king's counsellor, who could not but have a well-made bed, could not sleep a wink in it? he leaped over the bedstock, and hanged himself , and slipped down to hell .
Each rail of the bedstock is attached by a mortise-and-tenon joint to the headboard. It is somewhat unusual that the foot of the bedstock, which has its own low, freestanding footposts with turned finials, is also tenoned to the main footposts supporting the tester.
These figures imply that Malta would have 316 beds per square kilometer, in an already densely populate country,, and 100,000 beds by 2030 means that the current licensed bedstock will almost double in ten years and create bedstock equivalent to that created in the past 60 years.
Word Forms
- bedstocks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include buttstock, barstock, seedstock, stock-bow, stakebody, buck.
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