bier
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Noun (2)
- a coffin along with its stand“we followed the bier to the graveyard”
- a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Bier (…), noun
Origin: OE. bæe, beere, AS. bǣr, bǣre; akin to D. baar, OHG. bāra, G. bahre, Icel barar, Dutch baare, L. feretrum, Gr. …, from the same … bear to produce. See 1st Bear, and cf. Barrow.
1. A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
2. Weaving A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Knight, Edward Henry
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54