Bier
Bier ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English bae, beere, Anglo-Saxon bar, bare; akin to Dutch baar, Old High German bāra, German bahre, Icel barar, Dutch baare, Latin feretrum, Greek {not transcribed}, from the same {not transcribed} bear to produce. See 1st Bear, and compare Barrow.]
1.
A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
2.
(Weaving) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. — Knight