Bedstaff
Pronunciation : Bed"staff`
Part of Speech : n.;
Definition : Defn: "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.
pl. Bedstaves (.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913