1) Article of furniture 2) Bedframe 3) Box-spring partner 4) Bunk framework 5) Canopy site 6) Exclusively Anglo word 7) Exclusively Saxon word 8) Frame for a mattress 9) Framework for retiring 10) Furniture 11) Mattress frame 12) Mattress holder 13) Mattress support 14) Part of a four-poster 15) Piece of furniture 1) Bedframe 2) Divan 3) Fourposter 
• (n.) A framework for supporting a bed.
The framework of a bed, which raises mattress and bedding material above floor level. Bedsteads only became widespread in Europe from the early 17thC. Monument-like bedsteads with eleborately carved wooden canopies were made during the renaisssance, the canopies designed to provide privacy, protection from draughts, dirt and insects. The emphasis ....
The framework of a bed, which raises mattress and bedding material above floor level. Bedsteads only became widespread in Europe from the early 17thC. Monument-like bedsteads with eleborately carved wooden canopies were made during the RENAISSANCE, the canopies designed to provide privacy, protection from draughts, dirt and insects. The emphasis sh …...
Bed'stead noun [ Bed + stead a frame.] A framework for supporting a bed. 
[n] - the framework of a bed
bedframe noun the framework of a bed
the framework of a bed supporting the springs and a mattress.