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Definition[1]

apassaya : [m.] 1. support; 2. a bolster; 3. a head-rest.

Source
A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]
Definition[2]

Apassaya [cp. Sk. apāśraya, fr. apasseti] 1. support, rest ThA 258. -- 2. bed, bolster, mattress, in kaṇṭak˚ a mattress of thorns, a bolster filled with thorns (as cushion for asceties) M i.78; J i 493; iii.235. -- sâppassaya with a head rest J iv.299.
   -- pīṭhaka a chair with a head -- rest J iii.235.

Source
Pali-English Dictionary, TW Rhys Davids, William Stede,
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