captain's bed

American  

noun

1. a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.

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Example Sentences

That's the captain's bed, that is, and if he was to know I'd made you free of it he'd have a word to say.

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard

She had died at a quarter of midnight, and had lain all night on the captain's bed with a towel over her poor old face.

From Love, the Fiddler by Osbourne, Lloyd

A dry shirt and stockings were then put upon him, and he was laid in the captain’s bed.

From Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. by Anonymous

Yet the actor and the Californian still held vigil by the captain's bed.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

The axe had always hung in brackets over the captain's bed, that being the only trace that was left.

From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous