bedsore

* bed-staff, * bedd-staff, s . A wooden pin formerly affixed to the sides of a bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side. "Give her a remembrance with a bedd-staff, that she is forced to wear the North umber land-arms a week after." Twelve Ingenious Characters (1686). ( Halli well: Contrib. to Lexicog.) "Hoste , accommodate us with a bed -staff." Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour. bed-steps, s. pl . Steps for ascending a bed.