bedrail

American  

[bed-reyl] / ˈbɛdˌreɪl /

noun

1. a board at the side of a bed connecting the footboard and headboard.

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bedrail British  

/ ˈbɛdˌreɪl /

noun

1. a rail or board along the side of a bed that connects the headboard with the footboard

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Etymology

Origin of bedrail

bed + rail ¹

Example Sentences

I braced my foot on the bedrail and it twitched like a horse’s flank.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2013

With one hand clutching the bedrail, he stood there swaying from side to side, and striving to screw up his courage to the point whereat he might venture upon a second glance in the mirror.

From The Yellow Claw by Rohmer, Sax

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

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank

But all the evening he was buried in his own silence, and I suppose he was looking at the vision on the bedrail.

From A Diary Without Dates by Bagnold, Enid

His worldly pleasures were beside him—his reading-lamp, his Christmas box of cigars, his Star—but his eyes, disregarding them, were upon that sober vision that hung around the bedrail.

From A Diary Without Dates by Bagnold, Enid