box-bed noun5 •A bed that is completely enclosed to provide the occupant with privacy, resembling a freestanding box or built into a wall.She had turned when they reached the candle-lit attic with its high uncurtained windows and its red-covered box beds […]. — 1915 •A bed that has the form of a large box for storage, with the lid of the box serving as the sleeping platform.Perhaps the wood had warped too much during the monsoon, I thought, and the lid of the old box-bed did not fit properly. — 2013 •A bed that folds up to form a box. •A garden with a box-like frame around it; a raised bed. •The floor of a boxcar. formsbox beds · box-beds