bedded

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/ˈbɛdɪd/

adjective

Furnished with one or more beds; Having (a particular number or type of) beds

“three-bedded room”

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivebedded (not comparable)
  1. not comparableoftenFurnished with one or more beds; Having (a particular number or type of) beds

    three-bedded room

    4 more examples

    S.L.M., Ward 20, sleeps in a two-bedded room with D.L.M., over the laundry.

    1903, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry - Volume 2

    Please reserve one single-bedded and two double-bedded rooms for tomorrow.

    1917, The Imperial Government Railways of Japan, An Official Guide to Eastern Asia, page 336

    To the right of the superintendent's accommodation were the male, large 20-bedded and the small 5-bedded wards, and to the left the same lay-out of accommodation for female patients.

    2000, Terry Gould, David Uttley, A History of the Atkinson Morley's Hospital 1869-1995, page 21

    'Don't,' it said angrily, looking back over its shoulder into the feather-bedded room, 'don't, I say. […]'

    2021, Edith Nesbit, The Magic City
  2. not comparableHaving gone to bed.

    His bedded children dumb as death, Nor dared to speak aboon their breath;

    1849, James Kennedy, Poems and prose tales, page 103
    2 more examples

    All silent the bedded house, Silent as the tread of mouse, Save where House-maid Bridget keeps Snoring Orgies as she sleeps , And the Cricket's tender throat , Gives a shrill, unvaried note;

    1780, James Robertson, Poems, page 255

    Now and then a member of a bedded family would make a dash for a moment to seize something to eat, and then retire quickly to cover to make his meal.

    1884, Clarence Deming, By-ways of Nature and Life, page 351
  3. not comparableHaving lots of sexual experience; not a virgin.

    Margaret, his "spouse" accuses John of impotency, having been his bedded wife for upwards of two years.

    1851, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 525
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    the Queene, as being (I speake in the language of Canaan) the wedded and bedded wife to the king of glory .

    1630, John Boys (Dean of Canterbury.), The Workes of Iohn Boys, etc, page 927

    OK, not your lawfully wedded wife, but what was it that witch Radha Sabnis called me –your "awfully bedded wife."

    1992, Shashi Tharoor, Show Business, page 187

    He began his account by noting that Cassandra 'is a married, nay a bedded wife; your Francis hath lain with a wench' and then related how the groom had acquitted himself:

    2012, Jane Ohlmeyer, Making Ireland English, page 177
  4. not comparableLying flat.

    A second companion report presents a method for designing systems of vertical bolts to reinforce bedded roof.

    1956, Louis Anthony Panek, Principles of Reinforcing Bedded Mine Roof with Bolts, page 1
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    And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, Start up and stand an end.

    1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

    Higher levels resulted from exposure to bedded than to suspended sediment in all cases except in clams and mussels exposed to OHDP Outer sediments (Table 16).

    1994, Victor A. McFarland , Joan U. Clarke, Charles H. Lutz, A. Susant Jarvis, Brian Mulhearn, Francis J. Reilly, Jr., Bioaccumulation Potential of Contaminants from Bedded and Suspended Oakland Harbor Deepening Project Sediments to San Francisco Bay Flatfish and Bivalve Mollusks
  5. not comparableForming or containing a bed or beds (a horizontal deposit of a mineral or ore).

    Grayish black, medium-bedded, laminated packstone bearing limestone concretions, intercalated with light-gray, thin-bedded grainstone.

    2004, Shanchi Peng, Loren E. Babcock, Huanling Lin, Polymerid Trilobites from the Cambrian of Northwestern Hunan, China, Volume 1, page 39
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    This is largely because of their use in coal mines, although roof bolts are used in mining bedded deposits of all kinds potash (New Mexico) , trona (Wyoming), and ores of iron (Alabama), lead (Missouri) , uranium (Utah), lead-zinc (Utah), and copper (Michigan and Arizona).

    1956, Louis Anthony Panek, Principles of Reinforcing Bedded Mine Roof with Bolts, page 1

    The acceptance of bedded salt as a viable nuclear waste repository will in part be dependent upon demonstration of the ability to effectively isolate those man-made penetrations, i.e. shafts, boreholds, and tunnels common to the repository site.

    1983, D. M. Roy, Selection and Durability of Seal Materials for a Bedded Salt Repository, page 3

    This leads to a different bedding situation throughout the annular gap dividing the segmental lining into a fully bedded and partially bedded area as shown in Figure 3.

    2016, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering: From the Past to the Future, page 34
  6. not comparableGrowing or arranged in a bed or beds (garden plot or area in which a large number of plants, seaweed, or shellfish are found together.)

    The cover crops mentioned are superior to a constant use of inorganic fertilizers were a continuous cropping of bedded vegetables are grown.

    1958, University of Arizona. Agricultural Experiment Station, Report - Agricultural Experiment Station, page 76
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    Who lovest to see the hamadryads dress Their ruffled locks where meeting hazels darken And through whole solemn hours dost sit and hearken The dreary melody of bedded reeds In desolate places, where dark moisture breeds

    1876, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Sylvan Year ; The Unknown River, page 97

    The arrangement of the great bedded garden is circular and unusual , and the blaze of color is attained by boldy contrasting the vari- ous hues to secure rich effect.

    1917, James Dickson, “Some Old English Gardens”, in Garden and the Gardeners' Chronicle, volume 21, page 244
  7. not comparableoftenWith a bedding of straw, sand, woodchips, or similar covering the floor.

    Hogs in the non-bedded house had significantly longer carcasses ( P < .01 ) than hogs in the bedded house.

    1965, D. L. Ballee, Joseph Hover Stafford, Kirk Leland Athow, Effect of Ration Preparation on Performance and Occurrence of Ulcers in Growing-finishing Swine, page 7
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    Loose housing with a bedded area overcomes the problem of mobility and allows physical contact between animals, but the animals are still housed in a restricted space and may not be able to escape completely from an aggressive dominant cow.

    2007, Jeffrey Rushen, Anne Marie de Passillé, Marina A. G. Keyserlingk, The Welfare of Cattle, page 148

    Various epidemiologic studies have shown a significantly higher prevalence of lameness in herds using mattress-based freestalls compared with deep-bedded stalls (mostly sand).

    2017, J. K. Shearer, Lameness in Cattle, page 229

    Some manure handling systems incorporate sand separating equipment or sand-settling lanes to separate the sand from the sand-laden manure to be able to recycle the sand and use it in the sand-bedded freestalls.

    2020, Heidi M. Waldrip, Paulo H. Pagliari, Zhongqi He, Animal Manure, page 38

    In straw bedded pens pigs take less time for lying down, spend more time lying laterally and sows show increased total lying time.

    2023, Frans J.M. Smulders, Bo Algers, Welfare of production animals, page 95
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of bed

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivedeposited or arranged in horizontal layers

adjectivehaving a bed or beds as specified

Similar
double-beddedsingle-beddedtwin-bedded
Opposite

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