bedtick

== English == === Etymology === From bed +‎ tick. === Noun === bedtick (plural bedticks) A sheet used for enclosing the materials of a mattress, such as straw. Synonyms: tick mattress, bed tick, bed-tick, tick March 25, 1894, Alexander Berkman, "letter to Fedy", republished in 1912 in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist Sleepless, I toss on the withered mattress. The ravages of time and the weight of many inmates have demoralized it out of all semblance of a bedtick. But the Block Captain persistently ignores my request for new straw, directing me to "shake it up a bit." ==== Related terms ==== bedticking === References === “bedtick”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.