Found 3 items, similar to bier.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bier
keranda, tandu
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bier
bier
n 1: a coffin along with its stand;
“we followed the bier to the
graveyard”
2: a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bier
Bier
\Bier\, n. [OE. b[ae]e, beere, AS. b?r, b?re; akin to D.
baar, OHG. b[=a]ra, G. bahre, Icel barar, D? baare, L.
feretrum, Gr. ?, from the same ?? bear to produce. See 1st
Bear, and cf.
Barrow.]
1. A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed
or borne to the grave.
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2. (Weaving) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of
woolen cloth. --Knight.
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