Bedrel

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bedridden person; a helpless cripple. UK, dialectal
Adjective
  1. 1
    Bedridden. obsolete, rare

    "there is no man so crazed, bedrell, or decrepit, so long as he remembers Methusalem, but thinkes he may yet live twentie yeares."

Example

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"there is no man so crazed, bedrell, or decrepit, so long as he remembers Methusalem, but thinkes he may yet live twentie yeares."

Etymology

From bed + -rel.

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