Harse vs Hearse - What's the difference?
harse | hearse |
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Paul Boyton (1848-1914), title=The Story of Paul Boyton, chapter=, edition=
, passage="It's no harse Oi have," he solemnly responded, "but Oi've wan av the finest mares in the south av Ireland an Oi'll drive ye over for six shillin'. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Various, title=Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, January 10, 1917, chapter=, edition=
, passage=At the moment the huntsman leps his harse up on the double beside us; he was phlastered with muck from his hair to his boots. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Edited by James Weldon Johnson, title=The Book of American Negro Poetry, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Sateday, de marnin' break, Soon, soon market-people wake; An' de light shine from de moon While dem boy, wid pantaloon Roll up ober dem knee-pan, 'Tep across de buccra lan' To de pastur whe' de harse Feed along wid de jackass, An' de mule cant' in de track Wid him tail up in him back, All de ketchin' to defy, No ca' how dem boy might try. }}
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 harse and hearse
is that harse is while hearse is a hind in the second year of its age.As a verb hearse is
(dated) to enclose in a hearse; to entomb.harse
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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 .