Terms vs Hearsecloth - What's the difference?
terms | hearsecloth |
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
As nouns the difference between terms and hearsecloth
is that terms is while hearsecloth is a cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.hearsecloth
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.