beadle

beadle has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v.. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
• v.. An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students.
• v.. An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
• n.. a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
• n.. United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)