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Bedroll vs Beadroll - What's the difference?

bedroll | beadroll |

As nouns the difference between bedroll and beadroll

is that bedroll is a roll of bedding which can be carried when hiking or camping etc while beadroll is (obsolete) a catalogue of people whose souls are to be be prayed for.

bedroll

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A roll of bedding which can be carried when hiking or camping etc

    • beadroll

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A catalogue of people whose souls are to be be prayed for.
  • A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.2:
  • *:Dan Chaucer , well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
    • It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. — Quart. Rev.