bier

bier

a funeral litter: They placed the coffin on the bier.
Not to be confused with:beer – a fermented alcoholic beverage: He went to the tavern for a beer.

bier

B0156900 (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.

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[Alteration (influenced by French bière, coffin) of Middle English ber, from Old English bēr; see bher- in Indo-European roots.]

bier

(bɪə) na platform or stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse rests before burial[Old English bǣr; related to beran to bear¹, Old High German bāra bier, Sanskrit bhārá a burden]

bier

(bɪər)

n. 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. [before 900; Middle English bere, Old English bēr, bǣr(e)]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bier - a coffin along with its stand; "we followed the bier to the graveyard"casket, coffin - box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
	2.	bier - a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burialcatafalque - a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeralrack, stand - a support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"

Translations

Totenbahrebièrebara