Noun: beadsman
| Singular | beadsman |
| Plural | beadsmen |
Sample Sentences
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Good Lord Cromwell, stand my friend: exert yourself for Thomas Howard, who is your daily beadsman, your debtor for life. [2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 499:]
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Whereby ye shall bind me to be […]your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. [1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):]
Nouns inflected like beadsman
whipman,
slaughterman,
seaman,
sawman,
saxman,
sanman,
headswoman,
kettleman,
given man,
skyman,
Manilaman,
boogyman,
brotherman,
beadman,
transgentleman,
baggageman,
first gentleman,
bedeman,
boothman,
hackneyman, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From earlier bedeman, from Middle English bedeman (“a petitioner”), equivalent to bead (“request, petition, prayer”) + -man. See: Middle English Nouns '
bedeman'.