strawbed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A mattress made of dry straw in a cloth sack, often used beneath a featherbed or other softer mattress.
  2. Childbirth.

Word forms

strawbed strawbeds straw-bed straw bed

Etymology

From straw + bed.

Related words

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