bed-sheet

noun

1. Dated form of bedsheet.

   “Accordingly, my ſon bought the Powder of Griffith Wright, Printer, in this town, for 2s. 6d. and about ſeven o’clock that evening, I took five grains of it, in a little currant jelly, about the ſize of a walnut, and was immediately carried to bed in the bed-ſheet, as uſual. […] About ten in the morning, my ſon and ſervant took me up in the bed-ſheet as uſual, and ſet me naked at the bed-feet in the way to an eaſy chair, where I was always wrapped up in the blankets until the bed was made, &c.”

   “This was sufficiently tiresome, for although by dint of pillows and blankets, young blood and good health could get the better of that chill wintry air, within shelter of our bed-sheets, we soon found out that we could be comfortable nowhere else, so deplorably open lay those cruel chambers to all the inclemencies of the season.”