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▪ I. † bedlar, -lawer, a. (and n.) Obs. exc. dial.
[ME. bedlawere, f. bed + ? ON. lag lying: cf. MHG. betteliger, -ic, G. bettläger, -ig, in same sense.]
Bed-ridden; a person confined to bed.
c1440Promp. Parv. 28 Bedlawyr, decumbens. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (1835) 288 Seke wummen..wych bedlaure dede lye. 1468Medulla Gram., Clinicus, a bedlawere. 1474Act. Audit. 36 (Jam.) Johne of Kerss wes seke and bedlare. 1868G. Macdonald Seaboard Par. I. x. 146 Patients, who considered themselves bedlars..bedridden.
b. Comb. † bedlawerman.
1419in Promp. Parv. 28 Item lego cuilibet pauperum vocatorum bedlawermen..iiij d.
▪ II. bedlar
local variant of bedral, beadle. |