An apartment in Eastern houses, furnished with a slightly elevated platform at the upper end and sometimes along the sides, on which were laid mattresses. This was the general arrangement of the public sleeping-room for the males of the family and for guests, but there were usually besides distinct bed-chambers of a more private character (2 Kings 4:10; Ex. 8:3; 2 Kings 6:12). In 2 Kings 11:2 this word denotes, as in the margin of the Revised Version, a store-room in which mattresses were kept.
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
An Indian bed of clams is made by setting a number of clams together on the ground with the hinge up...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.