HEARSE

Hearse

A hearse is a funerary vehicle used to carry a coffin from a church or funeral home to a cemetery. In the funeral trade, hearses are often called funeral coaches.

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hearse

Noun

  1. A hind in the second year of its age.
  2. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
  3. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
  4. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
  5. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

Verb

  1. To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.


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