bedrel

English

Etymology

From bed +‎ -rel.

Noun

bedrel (plural bedrels)

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

Adjective

bedrel (comparative more bedrel, superlative most bedrel)

1. (rare, obsolete) Bedridden.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, 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