bearer

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From bear.

[edit] Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈbɛəɹə/

[edit] Noun

bearer (plural bearers)

1. (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.