bier
A litter to transport the corpse of a dead personA litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
» I don’t know why this infant needs a bier.
Meaning
3 sensesA litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
Bahre
похоронные носи́лкиnosílki
A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
катафа́лкkatafálk
a coffin along with its stand
A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
Examples
3 sentencesI don’t know why this infant needs a bier.
Would it be sacrilegious to make a chair from a bier?
A pallbearer stumbled, causing the casket to tumble off the bier and onto the ground.
deEin Leichenträger stolperte, wodurch der Sarg von der Bahre auf den Boden stürzte. — Yorwba
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English beer, beere, bere, from Old English bēr, (West Saxon) bǣr (“stretcher,From Middle English beer, beere, bere, from Old English bēr, (West Saxon) bǣr (“stretcher, bier”), from Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”).
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