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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

bæe

beere

, AS.

b[GREEK]r

b[GREEK]re

; akin to D.

baar

, OHG.

bāra

, G.

bahre

, Icel

barar

, D[GREEK]

baare

, L.

feretrum

, Gr.

[GREEK]

, from the same [GREEK][GREEK]

bear

to produce. See 1st

, and cf.

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

(Weaving)

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

Knight.

Noun.

[L. feretrum, from fero. See Bear.]

A carriage or frame of wood for conveying dead human bodies to the

grave.