bier
IPA: bˈɪr
noun
- A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
- A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
- A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
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Examples of "bier" in Sentences
- Then they proceeded to go closer to the bier.
- The body of the person buried here was found on a bier.
- Hengelo was the home town of Hengelo Bier, a local brewery.
- Bitburger Bier is a major sponsor of the German soccer team.
- Many and earnest were the eulogies pronounced over his bier.
- But now Cavil uses the resurrection technology to reactivate Biers.
- The flattened bier becomes the iron shroud of Vivenzio's dead body.
- The bier in the tomb was covered by the remains of the wood coffins.
- A bier is often draped with cloth to lend dignity to the funeral service.
- On the wall in the nave is a bier, used to carry the dead to the churchyard.
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