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bedral, bederal Sc.|ˈbɛd(ə)rəl|
Also bethral, -el, betheral, -el.
[App. a corruption of beadle: the ending may be due to form-assoc.]
A church officer in Scotland with duties akin to, but not identical with, those of the English beadle, often combining those of clerk, sexton, and bell-ringer.
1815Scott Guy M. lv, Put in auld Elspeth, the bedral's widow—the like o' them's used wi' graves and ghaists, and thae things. 1823Byron Juan x. lxxiii, Black Edward's helm, and Becket's bloody stone, Were pointed out as usual by the bedral. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1863) 211 The Dominie was sitting..opposite the auld Betherel. |