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Webster 1913 Edition


Bearer

Bear′er

(bâr′ẽr)
,
Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
Bearers of burdens.”
2 Chron. ii. 18.
“The bearer of unhappy news.”
Dryden.
2.
Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
Milton.
3.
A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.
[India]
4.
A tree or plant yielding fruit;
as, a good
bearer
.
5.
(Com.)
One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money;
as, pay to
bearer
.
6.
(Print.)
A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bearer

BEARER

,
Noun.
[See Bear.] One who bears, sustains, or carries; a carrier, especially of a corpse to the grave.
1.
One who wears any thing, as a badge or sword.
2.
A tree or plant that yields its fruit; as a good bearer.
3.
In architecture, a post or brick wall between the ends of a piece of timber, to support it. In general, any thing that supports another thing.
4.
In heraldry, a figure in an achievement, placed by the side of a shield, and seeming to support it; generally the figure of a beast. The figure of a human creature for a like purpose is called a tenant.

Definition 2024


bearer

bearer

English

Noun

bearer (plural bearers)

  1. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
    • Bible, 2 Chron. ii. 18
      Bearers of burdens.
    • Dryden
      The bearer of unhappy news.
  2. Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; pallbearer.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
  3. One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
    I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
  4. (India, dated) A domestic servant or palanquin carrier.
    • 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.
  5. A tree or plant yielding fruit.
    a good bearer
  6. (printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
  7. (printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

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beārer

  1. first-person singular imperfect passive subjunctive of beō