besatcheled

besatcheled

English

Etymology

be- +‎ satchel +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bĭsăʹchəld, IPA^(key): /bɪˈsæt͡ʃəld/

Adjective

besatcheled (not comparable)

1. (rare) Carrying or equipped with a satchel.
   • 1807: Oliver Oldschool, Esq., The Port Folio, volume IV, page 38 (Smith & Maxwell)

     This is not the incoherent rant, the waking dream of a schoolboy. No, it is the true and genuine sublime. Imagination cannot add a circumstance to heighten the grandeur, surprise, and horrour of the picture. The fracas, or hurry and tumult of the action in the foreground, the solemnity at a distance; Jupiter attacking the Greek fleets with fire and sword; the able captains mounted on artillery, scattering defeat and dismay : and, lastly, the poor discomfited pigmies, with Thrale’s besatcheled widow at their head, flying, lying, dying !