† baglen.
Obsolete.
The staff or crosier of a bishop.
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1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 282 A hard wele telle, þat bagelle & belle be filchid & fled. [in Pol. Songs (1839) 307 The baghel and the belle.]
1543 R. Record Ground of Artes ii. sig. T.iiii Crookynge in the lyttell fynger lyke the head of a bysshoppes bagle.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. T j And held in hand his bagle rod (Note—A bagle staf whom prelats that time did use).
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