bedrel

English

Etymology

From bed +‎ -rel.

Noun

bedrel (plural bedrels)

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

Adjective

bedrel (comparative more bedrel, superlative most bedrel)

(rare, obsolete) Bedridden.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  , 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.

Anagrams

rebled, red Leb

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