What is the meaning of Hearse?
A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “445-46”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 445-46
To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”)
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