bedrel

noun, adj — 2 senses

bedrel

noun

Etymology From bed + -rel.

1

UK, Dialectal A bedridden person; a helpless cripple.

bedrel

adj

Etymology From bed + -rel.

1

Obsolete, Rare Bedridden.

  • there is no man so crazed, bedrell, or decrepit, so long as he remembers Methusalem, but thinkes he may yet live twentie yeares., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.65

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