bier
a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
such a stand together with the corpse or coffin.
Origin of bier
1Words that may be confused with bier
- beer, bier
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How to use bier in a sentence
Here and there he lay in such rubbish as motionless as the effigies careen on marble biers.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor AtkinsonHe injected it into the spinal cord after the method made famous by Biers with cocaine in 1899.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) | Grant HagueReverently collecting them he washed away the gore and laid them on their biers, sending them to Athens.
Authors of Greece | T. W. LumbIn Hindeloopen the dead are put in the church to await burial, and there they rest on biers specially made for the occasion.
Dutch Life in Town and Country | P. M. HoughThe biers belonging to the church were placed on the beams which ran across the room.
British Dictionary definitions for bier
/ (bɪə) /
a platform or stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse rests before burial
Origin of bier
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