Bearer

/ˈbɛəɹə/ · noun

Meaning

One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
2. Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
3. One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
4. A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.
5. A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.
6. (India, dated) A domestic servant in charge of household goods and clothing; a valet.
7. (India) A waiter in a hotel or restaurant.
8. A tree or plant yielding fruit.

Example Sentences

And he [Solomon] set threescore and ten thousand of them [the foreigners living in Israel] to be bearers of burdens,

Forgive the Bearer of unhappy news: Your alter’d Father openly pursues Your ruine;

The slightest manifestation of sympathy or justice toward a person of color, was denounced as abolitionism; and the name of abolitionist, subjected its bearer to frightful liabilities.

Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed outstretch’d, If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d, But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers, For one Carrier put down to make six bearers.

[…] the bare coffin having been screwed down, was hoisted on the shoulders of the bearers, and carried into the street.

The deep shadows of the porch swallowed up priest, corpse and bearers […]

I promise to pay the bearer on demand.

Within an hour of our finally deciding to start five litters were brought up to the door of the cave, each accompanied by four regular bearers and two spare hands, also a band of about fifty armed Amahagger, who were to form the escort and carry the baggage.

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