bedrel

English

Etymology

From bed +‎ -rel.

Noun

bedrel (plural bedrels)

(Britain dialectal) A bedridden person; a helpless cripple.

Adjective

bedrel (comparative more bedrel, superlative most bedrel)

(rare, obsolete) Bedridden.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.65:
  there is no man so crazed, bedrell, or decrepit, so long as he remembers Methusalem, but thinkes he may yet live twentie yeares.

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