standing-bed
“and truckle-bed—His,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iv. 5.
6.
In Shakespeare's time a bed-room was generally furnished with astanding-bed and a truckle-bed; the former for the person of superior rank, the latter for the
inferior or for an attendant; in the daytime thetrucklebed (so named fromtrochlea, a
castor) was wheeled under the standing-bed.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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