field-couch

Updated: May 8, 2025

Then took I up in my teeth a firebrand by the end where it was not burnt, and cast it into the lap of my roaster, and another did I throw as well as I could under a field-couch that was placed near to the chimney, wherein was the straw-bed of my master turnspit.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2