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bethral

bethral is the obsolete form of beadle.

Meaning of beadle

Noun

beadle (plural beadles)

  1. A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
    • Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
      The children walking two and two in red and blue and green:
      Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
      Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.1789, William Blake, “Holy Thursday”, in Songs of Innocence
  2. (Scotland) An attendant to the minister.
  3. A warrant officer.

See all 4 meanings of beadle

Questions about bethral

What is bethral the obsolete form of?
Bethral is the obsolete form of beadle.

Words near bethral in the dictionary

  1. bethorned
  2. bethought
  3. bethoxazin
  4. Bethpage
  5. Bethphage
  6. bethral
  7. bethrall
  8. bethralled
  9. bethralling
  10. bethralls
  11. bethreatened

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