beadle

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  1. Substantiivi

beadle englanniksi

  1. Beadle

  1. A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.

  2. (RQ:Blake Songs of Innocence)

  3. (RQ:Dickens Bleak House) generally understood in the neighbourhood to be a ridiculous institution (..) The policeman considers him an imbecile civilian, a remnant of the barbarous watchmen times, but gives him admission as something that must be borne with until government shall abolish him.

  4. (RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)

  5. (RQ:Woolf Room of One's Own)

  6. An attendant to the minister.

  7. A officer.