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Bier vs Hearsecloth - What's the difference?

bier | hearsecloth |

As nouns the difference between bier and hearsecloth

is that bier is beer while hearsecloth is a cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.

bier

English

(wikipedia bier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a litter to transport the corpse of a dead person
  • * 1602 : , act IV scene 5
    • They bore him bare-faced on the bier
  • a platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed
  • A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
    • (Knight)

    Anagrams

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    hearsecloth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.
  • * 1857 , John Eadie, ?John Francis Waller, ?William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
    • His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth , when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications, internal and external, gradually restored him to life.