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hearses

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noun

  1. A hind (female deer) in the second year of her 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.

verb

  1. To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

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