bed / bedstead, bed of a cart or wagon, riverbed, seedbed, hotbed, bed of termites / layer, stratum / base, pad, supporting platform, especially for a watchman, fisherman, or gun / arbor-like frame for supporting vine plants or drying tobacco / receptacle for the floral organs on a flower stalk / gelatinous layer of microorganisms that forms in vinegar / scab / placenta / conjugal relation, man and wife