Brewer's: Bidding Beads

Telling off prayers by beads (Anglo-Saxon, biddan, to ask, to pray).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Bidding-Prayer
Bid-ale
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