Definition of bier

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< Bienville, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne de

Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett >

bier    (bîr) KEY 

NOUN:

1. A stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse is placed before burial.
2. A coffin along with its stand: followed the bier to the cemetery.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Alteration (influenced by French bière, coffin), of Middle English ber from Old English br; see bher-¹ in Indo-European roots