Definition of "apple-pie bed" []

• A shortsheeted bed in which a sheet is folded back on itself halfway down as a practical joke so that the victim cannot get into it. (noun)

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• "It is a very good knife, with a file in it, as well as a cork-screw and other things – and he did not come down at once, because he was detained by having to make an apple-pie bed for Dicky."