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Etymology

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bed +‎ tick

Noun

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bedtick (plural bedticks)

  1. A tick or bag made of cloth, used for enclosing the materials of a bed.
    Synonyms: tick mattress, bed tick, tick
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bedtick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)