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  beading Beadle, George Wells  
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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
beadle
 
SYLLABICATION:bea·dle
PRONUNCIATION:  bdl
NOUN: A minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English bedel, herald (from Old English bydel)and from Old French bedel (from Medieval Latin bedellus, from Old High German butil; see bheudh- in Appendix I).
 
 
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  beading Beadle, George Wells  
 
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