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beadroll

noun

Etymology

From bead + roll.

  1. derived from rollāre
  2. derived from rotula — “a little wheel”
  3. derived from rotulāre — “to roll; to revolve”
  4. derived from roller
  5. inherited from rollen
  6. compounded as beadroll — “bead + roll”

Definitions

  1. A catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.

  2. A catalogue of names

    A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.

    • Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
    • It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beadroll. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA