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ant-bed

noun

Etymology

From ant + bed.

  1. derived from *bʰedʰh₂-✻ — “to dig”
  2. inherited from *badją✻ — “resting-place, plot of ground”
  3. inherited from *badi✻
  4. inherited from bedd
  5. inherited from bed
  6. compounded as ant-bed — “ant + bed”

Definitions

  1. Termite mounds, crushed and watered, used as flooring material.

    • The floor was of ant-bed, the stuff of the termites' or white-ants' nests, which when crushed and wetted and beaten hard makes serviceable cement.

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