truckle bed

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There were three blankets upon three raised beds—one large and old, the other two little more than truckle beds.

From Literature

Both the boys were in their truckle beds.

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He was no longer beaten, chained, or starved; he lay in a truckle bed instead of a stable; the work he had to do was of the lightest.

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He took me to the very top of the mill, and there was a room with a heap of straw in one corner, and many empty barrels, and by the wall a truckle bed.

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Finally, he sat bolt upright in his little truckle bed in silent defiance.

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