† ship-bearern.Obsolete one who carries an incense-boat.
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ship-bearer?c1450
boat-bearer1839
boat-boy1902
?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 337 In festys clepyd Maius duplex ther schal be two sensours at euensonge and matyns, and a schypberer.