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

Word History and Origins

Origin of bedrail¹

bed + rail ¹

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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