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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
  • A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
  • A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
  • A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
  • A hind in the year of its age.

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Verb:

  • dated To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

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