Casket vs Hearse - What's the difference?
casket | hearse |
(poetic) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
* Shakespeare
A hind in the second year of its age.
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.
* Ben Jonson
* Fairfax
* Longfellow
A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
* Shakespeare
A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
(dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
As nouns the difference between casket and hearse
is that casket is a little box, eg for jewellery while hearse is a hind in the second year of its age.As verbs the difference between casket and hearse
is that casket is (poetic|transitive) to put into, or preserve in, a casket while hearse is (dated) to enclose in a hearse; to entomb.casket
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Verb
(en verb)- I have casketed my treasure.
Anagrams
*hearse
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(wikipedia hearse)Noun
(en noun)- underneath this marble hearse
- Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows.
- who lies beneath this sculptured hearse
- Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse .
