turnebedellus Save DMLBS turnebedellus [ME turnen, bedellus], ‘turn-beadle’, one whose duty it is to summon men to court. 1189 Reginaldus thernebedellus tenet dimidiam virgatam terre et summonet homines ad comitatum et hundredum (Inq. Glast.) Villainage in Eng. 319.