bier

/beer/US // bɪər //UK // (bɪə) //

啤酒瓶,啤酒,啤酒杯,饮品

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : 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.

nounsupport for burial

Synonyms

So they laid her on a bier, and all seven of them sat down beside it and wept and wept for three whole days.
The corpse was lying in a narrow coffin, upon a low bier, both of which were covered with a white pall.
I went in rather early, and came upon two men carrying the parish bier back to its place under the tower.
When Justin returned, ropes were passed round the leafy bier and the body was lowered by concerted effort.
There is an old funeral bier in one part of it, and we have failed to ascertain the precise object of the article.
From top to bottom of the granite ran long red lines, which might have been compared to oozings from a funeral bier.