bedded

noun

1. a thing for sleeping or resting on; specif., a piece of furniture consisting usually of a bedstead, bedspring, mattress, and bedding
2. bedstead
3. bedtime
4. any place used for sleeping or reclining
5. such a place regarded as the scene of sexual intercourse or procreation
6. 1. a plot of soil where plants are raised
   2. the flowers or vegetables growing in this
7. 1. the bottom of a river, lake, etc.
   2. a place on the ocean floor where something grows in abundance: oyster bed
8. an enclosing substance, as rock in which shells, minerals, etc. are lodged
9. any flat surface used as a foundation or support, as the earth, gravel, etc. under the rails and ties of a railroad
10. 1. a layer of cement or mortar in which stone or brick is laid
    2. the underside of a brick, slate, or tile
11. a pile or heap resembling a bed, esp. in softness or shape: a bed of leaves
12. a geologic layer; stratum: a bed of coal
13. ☆ the flat surface on which cargo is placed, as in a pickup or flatbed

Origin: ME & OE < IE base *bhedh-, to dig > Ger bett, L fossa, ditch, W bedd, Bret béz, a grave; orig. sense “a sleeping hollow in the ground”

transitive verb bedded, bedding

1. to provide with a sleeping place
2. to put to bed
3. to have sexual intercourse with
4. to fix or place firmly; embed
5. to plant or arrange in a bed of earth
6. to make (earth) into a bed for plants
7. to lay out flat like a bed; arrange in layers

intransitive verb

1. to go to bed; rest; sleep
2. to form in layers; stratify