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hot' bed"

Metalworking.
an area having rails or rolls on which rolled pieces are laid to cool.

hot•bed

Pronunciation: (hot'bed"), [key]
—n., v., -bed•ded, -bed•ding.

—n.
1. a bottomless, boxlike, usually glass-covered structure and the bed of earth it covers, heated typically by fermenting manure or electrical cables, for growing plants out of season.
2. a place or environment favoring rapid growth or spread, esp. of something disliked or unwanted: a hotbed of disease.
3. Slang.a bed shared by two or more persons in shifts, each sleeping in it for or at a designated time and then vacating it for the next occupant.

—v.i.
Slang.to share a bed in shifts, so that it is always occupied.

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