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underˈbearer Now dial. and U.S.
[under-1 4 a. Cf. bearer n. 1 c.]
One who assists in carrying the coffin at a funeral.
1700S. Sewall Diary 23 Mar., She is buried... The under⁓bearers were honest men. 1755Johnson, Underbearer, in funerals, those that sustain the weight of the body, distinct from those who are bearers of ceremony, and only hold up the pall. 1777Brand Pop. Antiq. iii. 35 St. Jerom..informs us, that Bishops were what in modern Language we call Under⁓bearers at her Funeral. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xl, All th' under-bearers and pall-bearers as I'n picked for my funeral are i' this parish and the next to't. 1885Century Mag. July 394/1 The ‘underbearers’, who carried the coffin,..were provided with plain gloves. |