The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bede \Bede\, v. t. [See Bid, v. t.]
   To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] --R. of
   Gloucester. Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bede \Bede\, n. (Mining)
   A kind of pickax.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Bede
    n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
         [syn: Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint
         Baeda, St. Baeda, Beda, Saint Beda, St. Beda, the
         Venerable Bede]