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bed down

Definition

to sleep somewhere temporarily, or to get into bed to sleep: After the earthquake, more than 150 families bedded down in the lobby of City Hall.
(Definition of bed down from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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