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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.
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Bier
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Example Sentences
- Bier were accused by the state of gross negligence and incompetence.
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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
EXPANDsense. Since c.1600, spelling influenced by Fr. bière, from O.Fr. biere, from Frankish *bera, from the same Germanic root.
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Bier definition
the frame on which dead bodies were conveyed to the grave (Luke 7:14).
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