† bedetn.
Obsolete.
A horseman's or soldier's boy employed to carry his baggage.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > military servant > [noun]
knighta1100
squirec1290
page?a1400
custrona1425
varlet1470
custrel1474
esquire1477
servitora1513
valet1591
stokaghea1599
calo1617
bedet1633
Tartar1747
batman1755
goujat1776
waiter1828
striker1867
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doggy1909
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > equipment for a journey > baggage > one in charge of
besage-man1526
baggager1614
bedet1633
baggage-master1815
baggage-agent1858
baggage-man1858
1633 W. Ames Fresh Suit against Human Ceremonies ii. 452 Not stragling Souldiers..but Souldiers boyes or Bedees.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Ruyters jongen, a Horse-mans boy, or a Bedet.
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