bedframe

[bed-freym]

noun

1. the frame of a bed, including the bedrails, headboard, and footboard.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedframe¹

First recorded in 1805–15; bed + frame

Example Sentences

The hip-hop mogul continued beating Ms Ventura until she hit her head on a bedframe and was bleeding profusely, the court heard.

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"This was not a war," she says, pointing at the pile of ashes where her brother-in-law's library once stood, the charred bedframes in the ruined bedrooms.

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It was found in a bedroom along with blood stains on a jumper, a mattress, a bed sheet and a bedframe.

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In hotels, the devices sit between mattresses and bedframes.

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They accuse him of tying prisoners to metal bedframes and torturing them with a cattle prod.

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