English Dictionary

bier

IPA（発音記号）

/bɪə/

名詞

A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person. / A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed. / A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.

日本語の意味

死体を運搬するための棺や遺体を載せる台（柩台） / 遺体や棺を置くための台またはプラットフォーム / ウール織物の経糸または鎖糸における40本の束

The pallbearers carefully lifted the bier and carried the coffin out into the rain.

棺担ぎの人々は丁寧に棺台を持ち上げ、棺を雨の中へ運び出した。

意味（1）

A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.

They bore him bare-faced on the bier.

意味（2）

A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.

On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears.¹ Three years later, at the conclusion of the Northern Expedition, a similarly melodramatic scene unfolded before the eyes of the public as Chiang visited Sun's bier in the suburbs of Peking.

意味（3）

A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.

biers （ plural ）