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bier

  [beer]
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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 bēr, bǣr(e); c. OHG bāra (G Bahre), D, Dan baar, Sw bår; sp. influenced by F bière; akin to bear 1 , barrow 1

bi

  [bahy]
–adjective, noun, plural bis, bi's.
Slang. bisexual.
Origin:
by shortening
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bier   (bîr)   
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

Bier\, n. [OE. b[ae]e, beere, AS. b?r, b?re; akin to D. baar, OHG. b[=a]ra, G. bahre, Icel barar, D? 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : bier
Spanish: cerveza de fermentación alta, ale,
German: das englisches Bier,
Japanese: ビールの一種
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bier

the frame on which dead bodies were conveyed to the grave (Luke 7:14).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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