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Bedfast

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.

    "1796, Robert Burns, letter written to Mr. Cunningham, 7 July, 1796, in The Prose Works of Robert Burns; Containing his Letters and Correspondence, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1819, p. 278 https://books.google.ca/books?id=gzYBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false For these eight or ten months I have been ailing, sometimes bedfast and sometimes not; but these last three months I have been tortured with an excruciating rheumatism, which has reduced me to nearly the last stage."

Adjective
  1. 1
    confined to bed (by illness) wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A joint or hook that attaches a bedrail to a headboard or footboard.
  2. 2
    One who is bedfast.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From bed + fast.

Etymology 2

From bed + fast.

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