bier

Noun
US[beer]/bir/1 syllable

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. a coffin along with its stand“we followed the bier to the graveyard”Type of coffin, casket
  2. a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burialType of rack, standKinds catafalque
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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

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