Definition of "garden-bed" [garden-bed]

• A bed of flowers or vegetables in a garden. (noun)
• A name given to certain small areas covered by a number of low parallel, artificial ridges some six or eight inches high and from four to ten feet apart, found in certain parts of the eastern and central United States. Their significance is not known with certainty. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But still, it acts only as a garden-bed for the green accord of clary sage and galbanum which leads the theme of Vent Vert."
• "Under the sun-soaked wall ran a narrow strip of garden-bed full of mignonette and pansies, and from the bees came a low hum in which all other sounds were set — the mooing of a cow deprived of her calf, the calling of a cuckoo from an elm-tree at the bottom of the meadow."
• "Her first inclination had been to empty her bucket on the garden-bed, let down her skirts, tie on her bonnet and bang the gate behind her."