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means The bed, or final hours, in which a dying person speaks or acts with no more need to keep up appearances.

from A straightforward compound of 'death' and 'bed,' old in English — the bed as the literal site of dying, and by extension the whole scene: last words, last confessions, last wills. No hidden twist here; the power of the word comes from the plainness of the two syllables slammed together, naming the one piece of furniture everyone eventually meets.