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noun
- (context, generally) One who bears.
- Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
- 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 found it next morning and kept it.
Etymology: From (term, bear).
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