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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bier \Bier\, noun [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.
2. (Weaving) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. --Knight.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bier
noun
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
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bier the frame on which dead bodies were conveyed to the grave (Luke 7:14).
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