Also 6 -tyke. [see TICK.] A large flat quadrangular bag or case, into which feathers, hair, straw, chaff, or other substances are put to form a bed.
1569. Wills & Inv. N. C. (1835), 303. Item one fether bedtyke xijd.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 976. The use of wax … for bed-ticks that the feathers fly not out.
1861. Morn. Post, 27 Nov. Found under a mattress and bed-tick.
Hence Bedticking, bedticks collectively, or the material of which they are made; also attrib.
1705. Overseers’ Acc. Holy Cross, Canterb. Pd. for mouing Rich. Silks Goods and for a bedtickin, 00. 02. 01.
1884. Harper’s Mag., July, 304/1. The bed-ticking bag.
