bed-groundn.
U.S.
Ground on which cattle are bedded for the night.
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1880 Scribner's Monthly Mar. 770/2 There the cattle are huddled together or ‘rounded up’ in as small a compass as possible, called ‘the bed-ground’, and the herders stand guard over them..until morning comes.
1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xxvi. 267 The bed ground was well chosen and the night promised to be a good one.
1921 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three xvii. 220 The best bed-ground on the ranch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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