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truckle bed |
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truckle bed n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Furniture) a low bed on wheels, stored under a larger bed, used esp formerly by a servant ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations truckle bed n → niedriges Rollbett How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"Come in," said a voice which he recognized as that of the mendicant, whom he found lying on a kind of truckle bed. Each of these cells holds a small truckle bed, in which one prisoner sleeps; never more. For the rest, she knew that after office- hours, she reigned supreme over all the office furniture, and over a locked-up iron room with three locks, against the door of which strong chamber the light porter laid his head every night, on a truckle bed, that disappeared at cockcrow. |
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