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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bea·dle /ˈbidḷ/
 小吏,遊行領隊

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bea·dle n.
 1. 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.
 2. An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.]
 Note: ☞ In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.
 3. 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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 beadle
      n 1: a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves
           order at services
      2: United States biologist who discovered how hereditary
         characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) [syn:
          George Beadle, George Wells Beadle]