brush bed

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a makeshift bed in which evergreen boughs function as a mattress, used by Indians, campers, etc.

Quotations

1922

. . . I made a brush bed under a spreading spruce tree. . . .

1954

Caleb was remembering the pitchy smell from . . . the brush beds on which he and Nettie had lain along the trails. . . .