[see STOCK.] Earlier name of a BEDSTEAD, or rather of its front and back parts, between which the cross staves or rungs were laid; still used in the north.
1483. Cath. Angl., 25. Bedstoke, sponda, fultrum.
1534. Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866), 189. A peire of bedstockes & an olde presse.
1599. Harsnet, Agst. Darell, 18. His toe rapping on the Ende of the Bedstocke.
1624. Invent., in Archæol. (1884), XLVIII. I. 139. A bed stockes, a matteresse, a boulster.
1822. Bewick, Mem., note 43. Trunks of two old trees … answer the … purpose of bed-stocks.
1864. Atkinson, Whitby Gloss., Bedstocks, the frame of the bedstead for the sacking on which the mattress and bed rest.
