truckle bed

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Madame Elizabeth was placed in a kind of kitchen, or wash-room, with a truckle bed in it, on the ground floor.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

"He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle bed."

From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest

With this pleasant thought in mind, sitting on my truckle bed opposite the window, I gave myself up to a thousand philosophical reflexions of varying degrees of cheerfulness.

From The Mysterious Sketch by Erckmann-Chatrian

Joan sang appropriate words in the sweetest tones of her rich contralto voice, her eyes, like those of the audience, riveted on the face of the little invalid as he lay on his truckle bed.

From The Love Affairs of Pixie by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

First, that he lie upon the truckle bed, Whiles his young master lieth o'er his head.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George