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bedrail

[ bed-reyl ]

noun

  1. a board at the side of a bed connecting the footboard and headboard.


bedrail

/ ˈbɛdˌreɪl /

noun

  1. a rail or board along the side of a bed that connects the headboard with the footboard
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

Mr. Wicks has ceased to read those magazines his sister sends him; he now stares all day at his white bedrail.

The cigarette end dropped, the thin pyjama'd figure writhed up and stood clutching at the bedrail.

Hesitating, May clung to the bedrail; but she slipped at last into the sheet.

But as she paused again her emotion became overwhelming, and she clutched feebly at the bedrail.

But all the evening he was buried in his own silence, and I suppose he was looking at the vision on the bedrail.

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