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单词 earth-bed
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earth-bedn.

Brit. /ˈəːθbɛd/, U.S. /ˈərθˌbɛd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: earth n.1, bed n.
Etymology: < earth n.1 + bed n.
1.
a. Chiefly poetic. A grave. Cf. bed n. 4. Obsolete.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]
buriels854
througheOE
burianOE
graveOE
lairc1000
lair-stowc1000
lich-restc1000
pitOE
grass-bedOE
buriness1175
earth housec1200
sepulchrec1200
tombc1300
lakec1320
buriala1325
monumenta1325
burying-place1382
resting placea1387
sepulturea1387
beda1400
earth-beda1400
longhousea1400
laystow1452
lying1480
delfa1500
worms' kitchen?a1500
bier1513
laystall1527
funeral?a1534
lay-bed1541
restall1557
cellarc1560
burying-grave1599
pit-hole1602
urn1607
cell1609
hearse1610
polyandrum1627
requietory1631
burial-place1633
mortuary1654
narrow cell1686
ground-sweat1699
sacred place1728
narrow house1792
plot1852
narrow bed1854
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6962 (MED) Ioseph bans þai wit ham ledd, þar þai þam grof in erth bedd.
a1638 J. Tomkins in A. Boden et al. T. Tomkins (2005) 102 O thrice-blessed earthbed, Under whose happy pressure All in a sheet more blessed Lies fast my sleeping treasure.
1777 J. W. Fletcher Let. 13 Jan. in Wks. (1835) II. 428/1 I sometimes feel a desire of being buried, where you are buried, and having my bones lie in a common earth bed with yours.
1858 Harper's Mag. Nov. 722/1 Near this humble monument are the graves of several of his relatives... Their earth-beds were inclosed by a chain.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 118 Of all earth-beds, to your mind Most the choice for quiet, yonder.
b. A bed (bed n. 1a) consisting of or laid upon the ground.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > other types of bed
childbed1568
plank bed1584
table bed1633
earth-bed1637
pigeon-hole bed1685
box-bed1693
barbecue1697
plaid bedc1710
bed of state1713
pallet1839
high post1842
rocker1854
wire bed1882
lit bateau1895
string cot1895
sleigh bed1902
orthopaedic bed1943
high-low bed1956
futon1959
bateau lit1983
1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus in Dodsley's Select Coll. Old Plays IX. 163 My earth-bed wet with nightly tears.
1832 S. L. Fairfield Last Night of Pompeii 69 Up rose the vassals from their earth-beds.
1897 New World Sept. 513 He..kept rolling and tossing about on his earth-bed.
1920 K. Hughes Father Lacombe 43 The boatmen sprang up from their earth-beds and blankets at dawn.
1998 K. Ragan Fearless Girls, Wise Women, & Beloved Sisters 325 In the centre of the house was an earth bed. There the person was to lie down.
2. A plot of earth used for the cultivation of plants; = bed n. 8.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot
bedc1000
sollarc1440
garden stead1546
garden plot1548
quarter1565
square1615
orbell1635
area1658
earth-bed1757
1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia 142 Let any one imagine to himself a luty, loamy, and the like marly earth-bed.
1841 R. Brown Domest. Archit. Gloss. 342/2 Turf Cottage Garden, a garden partly turf, and partly earth beds for flowers and shrubs.
1851 Farmer's Mag. June 556/1 Fruiting Pines, whether in pots or earth beds, must be kept in a moist growing atmosphere.
1906 Laurel (Mississippi) Ledger 21 Sept. Take thin muslin or blotting paper and spread on a well prepared earth bed in the garden.
2004 T. Ulmer & J. M. MacDougal Passiflora 278/2 It is also advisable to plant it directly into an earth bed, as flowers will not form when it is grown in a pot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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