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n. A stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse is placed before burial.

n. A coffin along with its stand: followed the bier to the cemetery.

n. a litter to transport the corpse of a dead person

n. a platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed

n. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.

n. A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

n. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

n. A frame, usually of wood, on which to carry a load; a barrow; a litter; a stretcher.

n. Specifically A framework on which a corpse, or the coffin containing it, is laid before burial; also, one on which it is carried to the grave by hand.

n. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. Imp. Dict.

n. a coffin along with its stand

n. a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial

"'Friend,' whispered he, 'for charity conduct us to some safe place where we may withdraw this bier from the sacrilegious eye of curiosity.'"

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