bedtop

English

Etymology

From bed +‎ top.

Noun

bedtop (plural bedtops)

1. (rare) The top section of a four-poster bed.
   • 1858, Wilkie Collins, A Terribly Strange Bed:

     Down and down, without pausing and without sounding, came the bedtop, and still my panic terror seemed to bind me faster and faster to the mattress […]

   • 1981, Zick Rubin, Elton B McNeil, The Psychology of Being Human:

     The bedtop hitting his neck had been worked into the dream as his execution (Webb and Bonnet, 1979) of the dream that we remember when we wake up.