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Standand bed, Standing bed, n. Also: -an(e)-, -en(d)-, stannand-. [e.m.E. standyng bed (1485), standinge bedd (1588); Standand(e ppl. adj. and Bed n.] A bedstead, esp. of the four-poster type, hung about with curtains and other hangings and covered over as with a ceiling. 1498 Acta Conc. II 280.
The standand bed and the remanent of the insicht gudis 1512 Prot. Bk. J. Foular I 153.
2 standing beds 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II 174.
Ane standing bed of aik withouit lofting 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II 178.
Ane standane bed of fyre 1540 Acta Conc. MS XIII 119.
Ane standand bed … furnest with fedder bed, … boister [etc.] 1541–2 Aberd. Trades 269 n.
Ane standan bed, ane nop bed 1550 Rec. Earld. Orkney 242.
Ane stannand bed 1560 Stirling B. Rec. I 74.
Thre standand beddis and twa of thame but boddwmes 1563 Montgomery Mem. 197.
In my lordis schalmer of his awin, ane standing tymer bed, with syling [pr. syking] abone and lofting vnder 1566 Treas. Acc. MS 62.
Ane standand bed with cleikis 1567 Bamff Chart. 70.
Ane standand bed of eistland burd 1572 Elgin Rec. I 135.
Standend bed 1583 Elgin Rec. I 172.
Ane standen bed, ane feddir bed, ane langsaidill 1585 Prot. Bk. W. Cumming 75.
Ane standan bed furnest with … courtingis of brogat vorsat … and ane frontell 1595 Invent. Castle Campbell in Argyll Mun. MS 21 Feb. (Old Argyll MS Inv.).
The tymmer of ane grit standand bed. … the tymmer of ane litle cannabie bed all of wanscott 1694 Inchmahome Pr. 162.
Standing bed