bedded
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈbɛdɪd/
adj
- Furnished with one or more beds; Having (a particular number or type of) beds
“three-bedded room”
“S.L.M., Ward 20, sleeps in a two-bedded room with D.L.M., over the laundry.”
- Having gone to bed.
“All silent the bedded house, Silent as the tread of mouse, Save where House-maid Bridget keeps Snoring Orgies as she sleeps , And the Cricket's tender throat , Gives a shrill, unvaried note;”
“His bedded children dumb as death, Nor dared to speak aboon their breath;”
- Having lots of sexual experience; not a virgin.
“the Queene, as being (I speake in the language of Canaan) the wedded and bedded wife to the king of glory .”
“Margaret, his "spouse" accuses John of impotency, having been his bedded wife for upwards of two years.”
- Lying flat.
“And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm, Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, Start up and stand an end.”
“A second companion report presents a method for designing systems of vertical bolts to reinforce bedded roof.”
- Forming or containing a bed or beds (a horizontal deposit of a mineral or ore).
“This is largely because of their use in coal mines, although roof bolts are used in mining bedded deposits of all kinds potash (New Mexico) , trona (Wyoming), and ores of iron (Alabama), lead (Missouri) , uranium (Utah), lead-zinc (Utah), and copper (Michigan and Arizona).”
“The acceptance of bedded salt as a viable nuclear waste repository will in part be dependent upon demonstration of the ability to effectively isolate those man-made penetrations, i.e. shafts, boreholds, and tunnels common to the repository site.”
- Growing or arranged in a bed or beds (garden plot or area in which a large number of plants, seaweed, or shellfish are found together.)
“Who lovest to see the hamadryads dress Their ruffled locks where meeting hazels darken And through whole solemn hours dost sit and hearken The dreary melody of bedded reeds In desolate places, where dark moisture breeds”
“The cover crops mentioned are superior to a constant use of inorganic fertilizers were a continuous cropping of bedded vegetables are grown.”
- With a bedding of straw, sand, woodchips, or similar covering the floor.
“Hogs in the non-bedded house had significantly longer carcasses ( P < .01 ) than hogs in the bedded house.”
“Loose housing with a bedded area overcomes the problem of mobility and allows physical contact between animals, but the animals are still housed in a restricted space and may not be able to escape completely from an aggressive dominant cow.”
verb
- simple past and past participle of bed