lazy bed

British

noun

(in parts of Scotland and Ireland, formerly) a patch in which potatoes were cultivated by laying them on the surface and covering them with kelp and with soil from a trench on either side of the bed

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Think, then, how many hours on hours you have lost, lying asleep so profoundly, "That the cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more could rouse you from your lazy bed."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 by Various

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