bedding
noun
[ ˈbɛdɪŋ ]
• bedclothes.
• a base or bottom layer.
• "a bedding course of sand"
• a display of bedding plants.
• "summer bedding is usually associated with flowers rather than foliage"
• the stratification or layering of rocks.
• "bedding planes"
bed
verb
• settle down to sleep or rest for the night in an improvised place.
• "you can bed down in the shed"
Similar:
go to bed,
retire,
call it a day,
go to sleep,
get some sleep,
sleep,
nap,
have/take a nap,
catnap,
doze,
have a doze,
hit the sack,
hit the hay,
turn in,
snooze,
snatch forty winks,
get some shut-eye,
kip,
have a kip,
get some kip,
hit the pit,
catch some Zs,
slumber,
• transfer (a plant) from a pot or seed tray to a garden plot.
• "I bedded out some houseplants"
Similar:
plant,
plant out,
set in beds/soil,
put in the ground,
set out,
transplant,
• fix firmly; embed.
• "the posts should be firmly bedded in concrete"
Similar:
embed,
set,
fix into,
insert,
inlay,
implant,
bury,
base,
plant,
settle,
Origin:
Old English bed, bedd (noun), beddian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bed and German Bett .
