bed

bed has 35 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 3.

Definitions

• n.. An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
• n.. (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.
• n.. A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
• n.. A mass or heap of anything arranged like a bed; as, a bed of ashes or coals.
• n.. The bottom of a watercourse, or of any body of water; as, the bed of a river.
• n.. A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.
• n.. See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.
• n.. The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.
• n.. A course of stone or brick in a wall.
• n.. The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.
• n.. The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
• n.. The foundation or the more solid and fixed part or framing of a machine; or a part on which something is laid or supported; as, the bed of an engine.