Hearse vs Hearselike - What's the difference?
hearse | hearselike |
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.
Resembling or characteristic of a hearse.
* 1994 , Lindsey Tucker, Textual escap(e)ades
As a noun hearse
is a hind in the second year of its age.As a verb hearse
is (dated) to enclose in a hearse; to entomb.As an adjective hearselike is
resembling or characteristic of a hearse.hearse
English
(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 .
Verb
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*hearselike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- These vehicles convey Esther from her hometown hospital, then to a city hospital, and finally from the city hospital in another hearselike conveyance...