Obs. Also 7 bedee. [ad. F. bidet little baggage horse.] A horseman’s or soldier’s boy employed to carry his baggage.
1633. Ames, Fresh Suit agst. Cerem., II. 452. Not stragling Souldiers … but Souldiers boyes or Bedees.
1660. Hexham, Een Ruyters jongen, a Horse-man’s boy, or a Bedet.
