Beadroll

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  • n. A catalogue of people whose souls are to be be prayed for.
  • n. A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A list of prayers; specifically, before the Reformation, the list of the persons and objects for which prayers were said, read out by the preacher before the sermon.
  • n. Figuratively, any list or catalogue; a long series.
  • n. A rosary.
  • n. In bookbinding, a brass roll with the edge cut in dots or beads, used in gilding.
  • n. Also called bead-row.
  • Word Usage
    "“Charles Chattey” stood foremost on this black beadroll, and when this name was shouted by the stentorian lungs of one of the scourgers, a little duck-legged Londoner stood forth."
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