Bearer
- n. A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
- n. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
- n. Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
- n. A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
- n. A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.
- n. One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.