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brush bed

• a makeshift bed in which evergreen boughs function as a mattress, used by Indians, campers, etc.

  See also: bough bed  

  • 1922  . . . I made a brush bed under a spreading spruce tree. . . .
  • 1954  Caleb was remembering the pitchy smell from . . . the brush beds on which he and Nettie had lain along the trails. . . .