1. Settle down to sleep or rest, especially in temporary or makeshift accommodations
   "We bedded down at midnight";
   - bunk down [informal]
    
2. (of plants) to establish firmly in soil
   "The seedlings need time to bed down before transplanting"

Derived forms: bedding down, bedded down, beds down

Type of: bed, go to bed, go to sleep, hit the hay [informal], hit the sack [informal], kip down [informal], retire, sack out [N. Amer, informal], turn in [informal]