Synonyms:
mattress
Meaning: a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
Usage examples
Have you brought your mattress?
But, stay; didn't I tell you this morning to come home with your mattress and pillow and all?
Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise' yellow noise Interrupt this ground.
The balloon has to split automatically and to scatter the youngsters and their flossy mattress all mixed up together.
In answer to this Mrs. Greenow told him that there was so much more reason why some one should provide the poor man with a mattress.
"I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, and installed herself.
He could, however, not keep himself from hinting that Oileymead was a substantial home, and that Bellfield had not as much as a straw mattress to lie upon.
Would they not, on the contrary, by employing the cart leave every arm free? Was it impossible to place the mattress on which Herbert was lying in it, and to advance with so much care that any jolt should be avoided?
He saw the bed, and on the mattress that young man, bleeding, white with a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, stripped to the waist, slashed all over with crimson wounds, motionless and brilliantly lighted up.
In the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences it is stated, that a bitch which was forgotten in a country-house, where she had access to no other nourishment, lived forty days on the wool of an old mattress which she had torn to pieces and digested.