Bier: Definition and part of speech

Bier

  1. n. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.
  2. n. A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

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.

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