Definition of Bedboards

1. bedboard [n] - See also: bedboard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedboards

bedawin
bedawins
bedaze
bedazed
bedazes
bedazing
bedazzle
bedazzled
bedazzlement
bedazzlements
bedazzles
bedazzling
bedbath
bedbaths
bedboard
bedboards (current term)
bedbound
bedbug
bedbugs
bedchair
bedchairs
bedchamber
bedchambers
bedclothes
bedcord
bedcords
bedcover
bedcovering
bedcoverings
bedcovers

Literary usage of Bedboards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905 by Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (1911)
"She clung to the bedboards with all her strength gasping for breath, until a voice called out quickly, " Stop, no more, no more," She sat there drenched and ..."

2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"... can be done by the nurse, a family member, or the patient himself Proper positioning in bed is also important and can be assisted by sandbags, bedboards ..."

3. China: State Control of Religion by Mickey Spiegel, Human Rights Watch/Asia (1997)
"A week later, thugs reportedly hired by the police interrupted the meeting, took bedboards and new Bibles, ..."

4. Ada Beeson Farmer: A Missionary Heroine of Kuang Si, South China by Wilmoth Alexander Farmer (1912)
"... but by using Chinese bedboards with a straw mattress and plenty of bedding to take away the hardness of the boards, ..."

5. The Cantonese Made Easy Vocabulary: A Small Dictionary in English and by James Dyer Ball (1908)
"Bed, n. £fc, .eh'ong. Class. (When the bedstead is meant), {Щ, {c])öng ; ^. cp'ù (when the bedding &c). bedboards, n. ^ ^, cch'ong pan. Class. ..."

6. Enforcement Procedures And Scheduling For Occupational Exposure To Tuberculosisby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Noncritical items are those that either do not ordinarily touch the patient or touch only tha patient's intact skin (eg, crutches, bedboards, ..."

7. Annual Report of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine by United States (1912)
"... bedboards, staircases, furniture, etc. 6. An efficient daily scavenging of all streets and lanes and the removal of refuse daily from all houses, ..."

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