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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bier
n 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
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bier
the frame on which dead bodies were conveyed to the grave (Luke
7:14).
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