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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bedstaff \Bed"staff`\, n.; pl. {Bedstaves}.
     "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead,
     to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." --Johnson.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. --B. Jonson.


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           Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves.
                                                    --Brome.
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