Herse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /hɜːs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Herse is a noun meaning A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
Meaning
A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
More Meanings
- Obsolete form of hearse (“a carriage for the dead”).
- Alternative form of hearse.
- (obsolete) A funeral ceremony.
Example Sentences
Dido, my deare, alas! Dead, and lyeth wrapt in lead. O heavie herse!
The Grecians spritefully drew from the darts the corse, And hers'd it, bearing it to fleet.
In the south aisle, on a slab raised on four low shafts and covered by an iron herse, is a fine coloured recumbent effigy of a bishop
I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear. O, would she were hers'd at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin.
Word Forms
- herses
- hersing
- hersed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sable, harr, haras, hasp, hawsehole, hurdle.
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