bed down phrasal verb ( see also ↑ bed )
1 . to sleep somewhere which is not your bed and where you do not usually sleep:
Can I bed down on your sofa?
2 . bed somebody/something ↔ down to make a person or animal comfortable in a place where they do not usually sleep
3 . if a new system or arrangement beds down, problems with it are solved and it gradually starts to work in the way that it should