| Definitions | noun
- (context, mostly, UK) A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). An usher; in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide. In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton.
- 1857 "We have often seen each other," said Little Dorrit, recognising the sexton, or the beadle, or the , or whatever he was, "when I have been at church here." " Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, s:Little Dorrit/Book 1/Chapter 14, Book 1, Chapter 14.
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