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Coffin vs Bier - What's the difference?

coffin | bier |

As nouns the difference between coffin and bier

is that coffin is an oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried while bier is a litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.

As a verb coffin

is to place in a coffin.

coffin

English

(wikipedia coffin)

Alternative forms

* cophin (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.
  • (obsolete) A basket.
  • * Wycliffe's Bible
    • And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full (Matthew 14:20).
  • A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
  • (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
    • (Nares)
  • The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Usage notes

    The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

    Synonyms

    * casket (US)

    Derived terms

    * coffin bone * coffinlike * coffin nail * coffin ride * coffin ship * encoffin * encoffiner * encoffinment

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in a coffin.
  • * 2007 , (Barbara Everett), "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books , 29:6, p. 21:
    • The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.

    Synonyms

    * encoffin

    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)

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