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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.”
    Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff.   --B. Jonson.
    Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves.   --Brome.