Definitions for bedding

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bedding bed·ding

Spelling: [bed-ing]

IPA: /ˈbɛd ɪŋ/

Bedding is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in bedding (bddegin).

Definitions for bedding

noun

1. blankets, sheets, etc., used on a bed; bedclothes.
2. bedclothes together with a matress.
3. litter; straw, etc., as a bed for animals.
4. Building Trades. a foundation or bottom layer. a thin layer of putty laid in the rabbet of a window frame or muntin to give a pane of glass an even backing.
5. Geology. arrangement of sedimentary rocks in strata.
6. a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
7. the mattress and bedclothes together with the bedstead of a bed.
8. the bedstead alone.
9. the act of or time for sleeping:
10. the use of a bed for the night; lodging:
11. the marital relationship.
12. any resting place:
13. something resembling a bed in form or position.
14. a piece or area of ground in a garden or lawn in which plants are grown.
15. an area in a greenhouse in which plants are grown.
16. the plants in such areas.
17. the bottom of a lake, river, sea, or other body of water.
18. a piece or part forming a foundation or base.
19. a layer of rock; a stratum.
20. a foundation surface of earth or rock supporting a track, pavement, or the like:
21. Building Trades. the underside of a stone, brick, slate, tile, etc., laid in position. the upper side of a stone laid in position. the layer of mortar in which a brick, stone, etc., is laid. the natural stratification of a stone:
22. Furniture. skirt (def 6b).
23. the flat surface in a printing press on which the form of type is laid.
24. Transportation. the body or, sometimes, the floor or bottom of a truck or trailer.
25. Chemistry. a compact mass of a substance functioning in a reaction as a catalyst or reactant.
26. Sports. the canvas surface of a trampoline. the smooth, wooden floor of a bowling alley. the slate surface of a billiard table to which the cloth is fastened.
27. Zoology. flesh enveloping the base of a claw, especially the germinative layer beneath the claw.
28. Also called mock, mock mold. Shipbuilding. a shaped steel pattern upon which furnaced plates for the hull of a vessel are hammered to shape.
29. bed and board.

Idioms

1. get up on the wrong side of the bed, to be irritable or bad-tempered from the start of a day:
2. go to bed, to retire, especially for the night. to engage in sexual relations.
3. go to bed with, to have sexual intercourse with.
4. in bed, beneath the covers of a bed. engaged in sexual intercourse.
5. jump / get into bed with, to form a close, often temporary, alliance, usually with an unlikely ally:
6. make a bed, to fit a bed with sheets and blankets.
7. make one's bed, to be responsible for one's own actions and their results:
8. put to bed, to help (a child, invalid, etc.) go to bed. Printing. to lock up (forms) in a press in preparation for printing. to work on the preparation of (an edition of a newspaper, periodical, etc.) up to the time of going to press.

adjective

1. Horticulture. of or relating to a plant especially suited to or prepared for planting in an open-air bed for ornamental displays:

Verb phrases

1. bed down, to make a bed for (a person, animal, etc.). to retire to bed:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a bed.
2. to put to bed.
3. Horticulture. to plant in or as in a bed.
4. to lay flat.
5. to place in a bed or layer:
6. to embed, as in a substance:
7. to take or accompany to bed for purposes of sexual intercourse.

verb (used without object)

1. to have sleeping accommodations:
2. Geology. to form a compact layer or stratum.
3. (of a metal structural part) to lie flat or close against another part.
4. Archaic. to go to bed.

Origin of bedding

before 1000; Middle English, Old English; see bed, -ing¹

Examples for bedding

The bedding followed; the cell was gone over microscopically.

The Shanars spent Sunday night out on the deck, with nothing but some pillows and bedding, tossing and turning.

As I dragged my bedding into the unit, the deputy handed me a plastic bag.

Rebecca Dana on his upcoming menswear collection, reality-TV projects—and a line of bedding.

Bed and bedding had gone, piece by piece, to the second-hand dealers of the neighborhood.

The waggon-maker went back to the corner of his house for some bedding.

Warren Jeffs, the cult leader with some 100 wives, goes on trial today, charged with bedding girls as young as 12.

He ate his supper and then spread his bedding on the ground just outside the door of the cabin.

Am I suggesting we give Big Dogs carte blanche to run wild, bedding every pretty young thing who catches their eye?

"Look," he said, pointing at the growing pile of bags and bedding on the brig's quarter-deck.