bed down
Verb
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Verb
bed down
- (intransitive) To lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery.
- 2006, Temple Grandin, Jennifer Lanier and Mark Deesing, Low Stress Methods for Moving and Herding Cattle on Pastures, Paddocks and Large Feedlot Pens, Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University
- The herd will tend to stay where the calves bed down.
- 2004, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Spell
- Through the woods, and frosted moors
- Past the snow-caked hedgerows I
- Bed down upon the drifting snow
- Sleep beneath the melting sky.
- 2006, Temple Grandin, Jennifer Lanier and Mark Deesing, Low Stress Methods for Moving and Herding Cattle on Pastures, Paddocks and Large Feedlot Pens, Department of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University
- (transitive) To put an animal to rest for the night.
- "We'll bed down the cattle and head into town."
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