bedrail
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bedrail
Example Sentences
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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 Sax Rohmer
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 Enid Bagnold
But as she paused again her emotion became overwhelming, and she clutched feebly at the bedrail.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
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 Enid Bagnold
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