Bier Definition

bîr
noun
A stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse is placed before burial.
American Heritage
A platform or portable framework on which a coffin or corpse is placed.
Webster's New World
A coffin along with its stand.
Followed the bier to the cemetery.
American Heritage
A coffin and its supporting platform.
Webster's New World

A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.

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Noun

Singular:
bier
Plural:
biers

Origin of Bier

  • From Middle English beer, beere, bere, from Old English bēr, (West Saxon) bǣr (“stretcher, bier”), from Proto-Germanic *bērō (East Frisian beere, Dutch baar, German Bahre), from *beraną (“to bear”). More at bear.

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration (influenced by French bière coffin) of Middle English ber from Old English bēr bher-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bier Sentence Examples

  • The body, when put upon the bier, is covered over from head to foot.

  • His body was dragged from the bier, while being conveyed to the funeral pile, and treated with the greatest indignity.

  • And he came and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still.

  • Beside the organ in the side chapel is a wheeled 19th century bier.

  • During the night of the 25th of May his body was conveyed from Hawarden to London and the coffin was placed on a bier in Westminster Hall.

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Words Starting With

BBIBIE

Words Ending With

RERIER

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bier

Words Starting With B and Ending With R

Starts With B & Ends With RStarts With BI & Ends With RStarts With B & Ends With ER

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With B4 Letter Words Ending With R