Reverse Dictionary: BEADLE

NOUNS, PERSON – the ceremonial officer of a church, college, or similar institution
► ADMIRAL OF THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE an overdressed, flashy beadle or other minor, uniformed official → 19C sl.
► BAN-BEGGAR ► BANG-BEGGAR a beadle; a constable; a parish officer → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BEAGLE a beadle, a bailiff; one who makes it his business to scent out or hunt down; a spy’ an informer; a constable; a sheriff’s officer → 1559 
► BECK a beadle, a constable → 1698 UK criminals’ sl.
► BEDAL a beadle, an inferior officer of court, commonly called beagle → 1795 (Bk.)
► BEDDLE a beadle; a town bellman → 1842 Sc.
► BEDERAL ► BEDLER ► BEDRAL ► BEDREL ► BETHERAL an inferior church officer in Scotland, often combining those of beadle, clerk, sexton, gravedigger, bellringer → 1815 Sc.
► BIDDELL a beadle → 1914 (Bk.)
► BUMBLE a beadle; a member of a municipal corporation, parish council, or the like, to whom official pomposity and fussy stupidity are attributed; a consequential jack-in-office → 1856 
► HARMAN-BECK a beadle, the parish-constable; a constable → 1567 thieves’ sl. obs.
► MINISTER’S MAN the beadle of a church; the man who looks after the minister’s garden, etc. → 1883 Sc.
► MUGGILL a beadle → 1610 obs.