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bedbox en · NOUN

Etymology

From bed + box.

Meanings

1. A box-bed.
   • Her gaze swept the room, taking in the oatcakes cold on the stones of her firebox, the dusty loom she never used, her storage shelf above the bedbox stacked with baskets of dried berries and grain. 2003, Susan Squires, Danelaw, page 21:
   • In the NORTH ROOM, two bedboxes are built into one wall and hung with the same coarse striped silk as the fireplace. 1967, Researching Design in New York, page 7:
   • The oval Norse hut at L15 was a substantial structure, probably with two rooms, a bedbox, and fireplace and was used for a considerable period of time. 2005, Keith Branigan, J. M. Bumsted, From Clan to Clearance: History and Archaeology on the Isle of Barra, C. 850-1850 AD, page 31:
2. A nest box.
   • We transferred Minnie to her new quarters after dark, carrying her in her bedbox and putting it inside the V-shaped pig house within the pen. 1984, Cully Gage, The Last Northwoods Reader, page 43:
   • Kiwi, our green-checked conure, crawled out of her bedbox and loudly demanded attention. 1992, The Pet Bird Report - Volumes 2-4, page 40:
   • She was a good deal excited, and ran frantically into and out of her little bedbox, which had a hole at each end. Soon this tiny gust of rage passed over. She now, though running about her cage, indulging in little gambols, indicating grace and agility, struck off into a truly beautiful strain of song. 1892, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, Bulletin - Issue 7:
3. (slang) A very small bedroom that does not hold much more than a bed.
   • It's essentially a budget hotel (the £69 room rate is valid every day), but comes with a reasonably stylish design that sets it apart from most cheapo bedboxes. 2006, Time Out Edinburgh and the Best of Glasgow, page 280:
   • The rooms which in the introduction have been described as "bedboxes" are actually only about twice as large as the bed. 1939, The Chinese Medical Journal - Volumes 55-56, page 170:

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