[see HEAD.]
† 1. The part of a bed on which the head rests; a pillow or bolster. Obs.
1483. Cath. Angl., 25. Bedhede, cubitale.
2. The upper end of a bed.
c. 1386. Chaucer, C. T. Prol., 293. For hym was leuere haue at his bed hede [v.r. beddes hede] Twenty bookes clad in blak or rede.
1883. Sir F. Pollock, in Fortn. Rev., 1 Oct., 536. A Book … such as every one would like to have at his bed-head.
