subs. (common).—1. A beadle. [The name of the beadle in Dickens’s Oliver Twist.] Hence BUMBLE-CREW (q.v.) and BUMBLEDOM (q.v.).
1883. Punch, August 4, 51, 1.
| A helpless ‘nuisance’ shunned by the Inspector, | |
| Ignored by BUMBLES and by Boards of Works. |
2. (old: B. E.).—‘Cloaths setting in a heap, or ruck.’
3. (common).—A shade for the eye of a horse given to shy in harness: cf. BLINKERS.
