Definitions for biers

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biers bier

Spelling: [beer]

IPA: /bɪər/

Biers is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in biers (beirs).

Definitions for biers

noun

1. a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial.
2. such a stand together with the corpse or coffin.

Origin of biers

before 900; Middle English bere, Old English bēr, bǣr(e); cognate with Old High German bāra (German Bahre), Dutch, Danish baar, Swedish bår; spelling influenced by French bière; akin to

Examples for biers

An hour after sundown they carried the bier on which her coffin rested into the chapel.

So they laid her on a bier, and all seven of them sat down beside it and wept and wept for three whole days.

And it seemed as if a devil whispered to him: 'A solitary couch is itself a bier.

Two men come out of the guard house and enter the palace with a bier.

One very heavy Indian, who was sick, was carried upon a bier.

They set down the bier and waited, that a mass might be sung for the lady's soul.

Then, one at the head and the other at the feet, they brought the body out, and laid it on the bier.

The dead were placed on a bier and wrapped in some kind of a cover.

Half a league from the city the bier was met by all the dignitaries of the place.

Tom Brandon and five other young men were to carry the bier.