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Frombed +‎tick.

bedtick (pluralbedticks)

1. Asheet used for enclosing thematerials of amattress, such as straw.

   Synonyms:tick mattress,bed tick,bed-tick,tick

   • March 25, 1894, Alexander Berkman, "letter to Fedy", republished in1912 inPrison Memoirs of an Anarchist

     Sleepless, I toss on the withered mattress. The ravages of time and the weight of many inmates have demoralized it out of all semblance of abedtick. But the Block Captain persistently ignores my request for new straw, directing me to "shake it up a bit."

• bedticking

• “bedtick”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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