Bedpost

1. n. Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.
2. n. One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.