■ noun
1》 a large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete.
2》 a flat, heavy table top or counter used for food preparation.
↘ Brit. a table used for laying a body on in a mortuary.
3》 a large, thick slice or piece of cake, bread, chocolate, etc.
4》 an outer piece of timber sawn from a log.
5》 Climbing a large, smooth body of rock lying at a sharp angle to the horizontal.
■ verb ( ~s , ~bing , ~bed ) remove ~s from (a log or tree) to prepare it for sawing into planks.
Derivatives
~bed adjective
~by adjective
Origin
ME: of unknown origin.