Crossword-Solution: BEDSTEAD 8 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Bedstead n. A framework for supporting a bed.

We have 20 clues for the answer “BEDSTEAD”

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Frame for a mattress 1 answer
Find it under the mattress? 1 answer
Springs support 1 answer
Retirement structure? 1 answer
Part of a four-poster 1 answer
Mattress frame 1 answer
Framework for retiring 1 answer
Frame for a sleeping person 1 answer
Four-poster framework 1 answer
Dormitory framework 1 answer
County man engaging a supporter for the retired 1 answer
Canopy site, maybe 1 answer
Bunk framework 1 answer
Box-spring partner 1 answer
Four-poster, e.g. 2 answers
Mattress holder 2 answers
Where a mattress goes 2 answers
Mattress supporter 3 answers
charpoy 4 answers
Mattress support 6 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BEDSTEAD (5)

Will you get a fire lighted, put down a piece of carpet, and help me to make the place comfortable? Afterwards, I want you and Maryann to bring up that little iron bedstead in the small room, and the bed belonging to it, and a table, and some other things.… What shall I do to pass the heavy time away!” “Hemming handkerchiefs is a very good thing,” said Liddy.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
And there’s Jim chained by one leg, with a ten-foot chain, to the leg of his bed: why, all you got to do is to lift up the bedstead and slip off the chain.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown, and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995
Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
CHAPTER V At seven o'clock, in the bedroom of his ranch house, in the white-painted iron bedstead with its blue-grey army blankets and red counterpane, Annixter was still asleep, his face red, his mouth open, his stiff yellow hair in wild disorder.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with BEDSTEAD (2)

On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.
Joel Salatin Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
His new friends did not, perhaps, realize the overpowering effect of the sudden change upon this northernbred man; the effects of the moonlight and the soft trade-wind, the life of love which surrounded him here. Love whispered to him vaguely, compellingly. It summoned him from the palm fronds, rustling dryly in the continuous breeze; love was telegraphed through the shy, bovine eyes of the brown girls in his estate-house village; love assailed him in the breath of the honey-…
Henry S. Whitehead
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 19 times in crossword archives (1976–2023).