BEDDED
bedded
(adjective) having a bed or beds as specified
stratified, bedded
(adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; “stratified rock”
BED
bed
(verb) put to bed; “The children were bedded at ten o’clock”
bed
(verb) place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
bed
(verb) furnish with a bed; “The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
bedded
simple past tense and past participle of bed
Source: Wiktionary
Bed"ded, a.
Definition: Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged
in a bed or beds.
BED
Bed, n. Etym: [AS. bed, bedd; akin to OS. bed, D. bed, bedde, Icel.
be, Dan. bed, Sw. bädd, Goth. badi, OHG. betti, G. bett, bette, bed,
beet a plat of ground; all of uncertain origin.]
1. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch.
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. In a general sense, any
thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity
of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron.
I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak.
In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.
2. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
George, the eldest son of his second bed. Clarendon.
3. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little
raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds of hyacinth and roses."
Milton.
4. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes
or coals.
5. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed
of a river.
So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed. Milton.
6. (Geol.)
Definition: A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a
bed of coal, iron, etc.
7. (Gun.)
Definition: See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
8. (Masonry)
(a) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and
lower beds.
(b) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
(c) The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
(d) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. Knight.
9. (Mech.)
Definition: The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a
machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the
bed of an engine.
10. The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
11. (Printing)
Definition: The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
Note: Bed is much used adjectively or in combination; as, bed key or
bedkey; bed wrench or bedwrench; bedchamber; bedmaker, etc. Bed of
justice (French Hist.), the throne (F. lit bed) occupied by the king
when sitting in one of his parliaments (judicial courts); hence, a
session of a refractory parliament, at which the king was present for
the purpose of causing his decrees to be registered.
– To be brought to bed, to be delivered of a child; -- often
followed by of; as, to be brought to bed of a son.
– To make a bed, to prepare a bed; to arrange or put in order a bed
and its bedding.
– From bed and board (Law), a phrase applied to a separation by
partial divorce of man and wife, without dissolving the bonds of
matrimony. If such a divorce (now commonly called a judicial
separation) be granted at the instance of the wife, she may have
alimony.
Bed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Bedding.]
1. To place in a bed. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with.
I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. Shak.
3. To furnish with a bed or bedding.
4. To plant or arrange in beds; to set, or cover, as in a bed of soft
earth; as, to bed the roots of a plant in mold.
5. To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security,
surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed
or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock.
Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still
water are bedded. Wordsworth.
6. (Masonry)
Definition: To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a
bed.
7. To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or
recumbent position. "Bedded hair." Shak.
Bed, v. i.
Definition: To go to bed; to cohabit.
If he be married, and bed with his wife. Wiseman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition