English
Etymology
From term|bear.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�b��ɹ�/

Noun
en-noun

1. context|generally One who bears.
2. Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
3. A domestic servant in India.

#*1888, Rudyard Kipling, �Watches of the Night�, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 60:
#*:The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch�Platte's watch�slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.

• 2008-01-02 22:38 - Widsith - /* English */

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