Bedstaff

Bed´staff`

"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side."

Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff.

- B. Jonson.

Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves.

- Brome.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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