Definition of "bedstaff" []

• A wooden pin stuck on the sides of a bedstead, to prevent the bedclothes from slipping on either side. (noun)

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• "Alas, his whole estate and life depended on his hatchet; by his hatchet he earned many a fair penny of the best woodmongers or log-merchants among whom he went a-jobbing; for want of his hatchet he was like to starve; and had death but met with him six days after without a hatchet, the grim fiend would have mowed him down in the twinkling of a bedstaff."
• "And at that I told him, not seeing how I could keep it back, the matter of my former affidavit and of the bedstaff in the dispensing-room, and said that a house where such things happened was no place for me."
• "There is one very obscure part in this statement, namely, the reference to the former affidavit and the matter of the bedstaff."