Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bedtick

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bedtick
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sheet used for enclosing the materials of a mattress, such as straw.

Example Sentences

"March 25, 1894, Alexander Berkman, "letter to Fedy", republished in 1912 in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Sleepless, I toss on the withered mattress. The ravages of time and the weight of many inmates have demoralized it out of all semblance of a bedtick. But the Block Captain persistently ignores my request for new straw, directing me to "shake it up a bit.""

Etymology

From bed + tick.

Inflected Forms

bedticks (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

bedticking

Synonyms

tick mattress bed tick bed-tick tick

Questions

What does bedtick mean?: A sheet used for enclosing the materials of a mattress, such as straw.
Where does bedtick come from?: From bed + tick.

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