Synonyms for truckle bed


Grammar : Noun


Définition of truckle bed

  • As in foldaway bed : noun foldable bed
Example sentences :
  • There were but two inodorous rooms, the innermost of which contained a truckle bed.
  • Extract from : « Menotah » by Ernest G. Henham
  • Quest was on his hands and knees, fumbling under his truckle bed.
  • Extract from : « The Black Box » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • What would they not have given, a week or two later, for a truckle bed and a tiled roof?
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 436, February 1852 » by Various
  • When Lingard ordered him to receive Joanna into his house, he had a truckle bed put into the office—the only room he could spare.
  • Extract from : « An Outcast of the Islands » by Joseph Conrad
  • His pointing to the truckle bed in the corner, seemed gradually to bring that poor couch to Bradley's wandering remembrance.
  • Extract from : « Our Mutual Friend » by Charles Dickens
  • Which, indeed, is witnessed to by the whole goggle-eyed populace in the truckle bed.
  • Extract from : « The Dew of Their Youth » by S. R. Crockett
  • He was made to array himself in mourning habiliments, and to sleep on a truckle bed.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume II.(of III) 1566-74 » by John Lothrop Motley
  • Dark figures held down something that yelled and struggled on the truckle bed.
  • Extract from : « The Drunkard » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • He indeed conducted Halbert Glendinning to a small apartment overlooking the lake, which was accommodated with a truckle bed.
  • Extract from : « The Monastery » by Sir Walter Scott
  • No longer did personal servants bed down in the drawing room or outside their master's door or in a truckle bed at his feet.
  • Extract from : « Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. » by S. A. Reilly

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