Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bede \Bede\, n. (Mining)
   A kind of pickax.

Bede \Bede\, v. t. [See {Bid}, v. t.]
   To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] --R. of
   Gloucester. Chaucer.

Source : WordNet®

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