bed down
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery, or of people when sleeping somewhere worse than normal, often camping or in prison.
Intransitive verb
verb
To make or become permanent, fixed or wedded to a particular setup, way of thinking, style or manner.
Example Sentences
- "2006, Temple Grandin, Jennifer Lanier and Mark Deesing, Low Stress Methods for Moving and Herding Cattle on Pastures, Paddocks and Large Feedlot Pens, Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University The herd will tend to stay where the calves bed down."
- "Through the woods, and frosted moors Past the snow-caked hedgerows I Bed down upon the drifting snow Sleep beneath the melting sky."
- "The horses will bed down once they get in the stable."
- "The tent was an uncomfortable place to bed down."
- "We'll bed down the cattle and head into town."
- "Who has she been bedding down with?"