different between beadroll vs bedroll

English

From bead +? roll.

beadroll (plural beadrolls)

(obsolete) A catalogue of people whose souls are to be be prayed for.
A catalogue of names; a pedigree, a long respected series.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.2:
  Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
- Foreign Quarterly Review
  It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line.

bed +? roll

bedroll (plural bedrolls)

A roll of bedding that can be carried when hiking or camping etc.
Synonym: sleeping bag

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