bier

FREQ #48343

n. 棺材, 棺材架

发音

UK /bɪə/
其它
US /bɪɚ/

词形变化

biers 复数 biers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.

  2. 2.

    A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.

  3. 3.

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

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

stand coffin rack casket

下位词 1

catafalque

相关短语

Bier spot Bier spots

词源

From Middle English beer, beere, bere, from Old English bēr, (West Saxon) bǣr (“stretcher, bier”), from Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), Dutch baar (“bier”), German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”). More at bear.

来源：wiktionary