Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) a bed, a bedroom.

c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 84: In what lipken has thou liped in this darkemans, whether in a libbeg or in the strummell?
1592		Groundworke of Conny-catching n.p.: [as cit. c.1566].
1608		Dekker Belman of London (3rd) B4: Bene lightmans to thy quarrones: in what lipken hast thous lipped in this darkmans? whether in a libbege, or in the Strummell?
1610		Rowlands Martin Mark-all 39: Lybbeg a bedde.
1618		B. Holyday Technogamia n.p.: Good Sir, if you be a Gentry coue, vouchsafe some small Win or but a Make, for wee haue neither Lowre, nor Libbeg, nor Libkin.
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 50: Libedge, A Bed.
1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Libberdge, a Bed.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Libbege, c. a bed.
1714		A. Smith Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 209: He taught his Pupil a deal of canting Words, telling him [...] Libege, a Bed.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1741		Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 115: Bedding Libbige.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 15: A Bed – Libbedge.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Libbege, a bed (cant).
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795).
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1825		T.C. Croker Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1862) 298: We all went quietly to the labbig,* [...] Never the wink of sleep could they sleep that live-long night. (*Labbig — bed, from Leaba).
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open 114: Libbege, a bed.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 17: [T]he Gideon Bibles in your libbages have been replaced by an altogether more powerful tome.