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bier

bier [ beer ] (plural biers)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. stand for casket: a table on which a casket or a corpse is placed

2. frame for carrying coffin: a wooden frame on which a corpse or a coffin is carried to where it will be buried ( literary )

[ Old English bǣr< Germanic]

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See beer.

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