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bedding
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bedding
1. something acting as a foundation, such as mortar under a brick
2. the arrangement of a mass of rocks into distinct layers; stratification

bedding [′bed·iŋ]
(civil engineering)
Mortar, putty, or other substance used to secure a firm and even bearing, such as putty laid in the rabbet of a window frame, or mortar used to lay bricks.
A base which is prepared in soil or concrete for laying masonry or concrete.
(geology)
Condition where planes divide sedimentary rocks of the same or different lithology.


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Volunteers work from dawn till dusk, bedding down for the night in tents and rented cars.
Army Sergeant Johnnie Roane comes marching home to the small town of Lennox, Connecticut, only to discover that his beloved bride, Glory, is bedding down with the town's car salesman and chief womanizer, Ed Barrell.
Instead, we tell each other life-tales, helping to haul an unskinned yak haunch, or bedding down in the monastery's storage room among grain sacks and rats.
 
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