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語源

From bed +‎ tick.

名詞

bedtick (plural bedticks)

1. A sheet used for enclosing the materials of a mattress, such as straw.

   Synonyms: tick mattress, bed tick, bed-tick, tick

   • March 25, 1894, Alexander Berkman, "letter to Fedy", republished in 1912 in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

     Sleepless, I toss on the withered mattress. The ravages of time and the weight of many inmates have demoralized it out of all semblance of a bedtick. But the Block Captain persistently ignores my request for new straw, directing me to "shake it up a bit."

関連する語

• bedticking

参照

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