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–noun
1.a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
2.such a stand together with the corpse or coffin.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME bere, OE bér, bǣr(e); c. OHG bāra (G Bahre), D, Dan baar, Sw bår; sp. influenced by F bière; akin to bear1, barrow1]
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n.  
  1. A stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse is placed before burial.
  2. A coffin along with its stand: followed the bier to the cemetery.


[Alteration (influenced by French bière, coffin) of Middle English ber, from Old English bēr; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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bier 
O.E. bær (W.Saxon), ber (Anglian) "handbarrow, litter, bed," from W.Gmc. *bero (O.H.G. bara, O.Fris. bere, M.Du. bare), from base *ber- and thus related to the O.E. verb beran "to bear" (see bear (v.)), making a bier anything used for carrying, only later limited to funerary sense. Since 1600, spelling influenced by Fr. bière, from O.Fr. biere, from Frankish *bera, from the same Gmc. root.

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bier

noun
1. a coffin along with its stand; "we followed the bier to the graveyard" 
2. a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial 

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Bier

Bar"row\, n. [OE. barow, fr. AS. beran to bear. See Bear to support, and cf. Bier.]

1. A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

2. (Salt Works) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
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