DCHP-1 Online

spool bed † 

• a design of bed having spool-like turnings as part of the design of the headboard and footboard, popular in the nineteenth century.

  • 1947  There was . . . the old spool bed that we had found in a junk shop in a neighbouring town.
  • 1956  The white spool bed, the hooked rug in two colors on the floor [were familiar].
  • 1958  Above it is a storeroom cluttered with fishing tackle, skates, dismantled spool beds . . . a broken parlor organ.