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sickbed [sik-bed] ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of sickbed late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at sick1, bed Examples from the Web for sickbed Historical Examples of sickbed
I have had some experience as a nurse, and Rosebel is excellent around a sickbed.
Oliver Optic
He would have come himself but the shock threw him into a sickbed.
Ludwig Thoma
As soon as Salazar got up from his sickbed he was back at the fort.
The Building of Castello de San Marcos
Albert C. Manucy
I am suffering from a severe chill, have recently come from a sickbed.
James Joyce
The night which sunk down on the sickbed of Ramorny was not doomed to be a quiet one.
Sir Walter Scott
sickbed in Medicine sickbed [sĭk′bĕd′] n.
- A sick person’s bed.