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burier|ˈbɛrɪə(r)|
Also 1 byrᵹere, 4 by-, birier, 6 buriar, 6–9 buryer.
[OE. byrᵹere, f. byriᵹ-an to bury + -ere, -er1.]
a. One who buries;
†b. a grave-digger; also dead-burier.
c1050Voc. in Wr-Wülcker 468 Per uispellones þurh byrᵹeras. 1382Wyclif Ezek. xxxix. 15 Thei shuln sette a title..bisidis it [a boon of man] til that byriers byrye it. 1535Coverdale Amos vi. 10 The deed buriers shall take them, and cary awaye their bones. 1598Florio, Sepellitore, a burier, a digger of graues to burie the dead. 1642Rogers Naaman 32 The buriers and mourners gape for him. 1722De Foe Plague (1884) 51 The..buryers of the Dead..were..terrify'd. 1798Monthly Rev. XXVII. 496 Amid the carcases wander Slowly the buriers. 1876Blackmore Cripps I. ii. 27 Secret buryers. |