As a verb beladle
is to pour out with a ladle; ladle out.
As a noun beadle is
a parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
beladle
English
Verb
(beladl)
To pour out with a ladle; ladle out.
beadle
English
Alternative forms
* bedel, bedell (obsolete)
Noun
(
en noun)
a parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order
(Scotland, ecclesiastic) an attendant to the minister
a warrant officer
Quotations
* 1789, , "Holy Thursday"
: 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. - , "Holy Thursday" (1789)
* 1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 8
*: His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a Beadle ; I was a woman.
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