standing-bed berth

Lumbering, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of a range of bunks lining the sides of a shanty (def. 2a).

Quotations

1853

Standing-bed berths are constructed on the two sides and one end of the building [shanty], similar to those on board ship. . . .