bedcord

bed-cord, bed cord

From bed +‎ cord.

bedcord (plural bedcords)

1. A cord or rope interwoven into a bedstead as support for a rope bed.
   • 1912, James Hudson Maurer, The Far East:

     On this floor is spread in places matting made of bamboo grass. On this matting many of the natives throw down a cotton blanket, or possibly a thin mattress, for beds. Some have a rude bed made of four posts sixteen inches high with crossheads and side pieces pinned together and then cris-crossed with bed cords.

• “bedcord”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.