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bier.

A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɪə/UK/bɪɚ/US
  1. A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.

  2. A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.

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

Where this word comes from

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”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), Dutch baar (“bier”), German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”). More at bear.

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