bearer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Middle English berer, berere, from Old English berere (attested in Old English wæterberere (“waterbearer”)), equivalent to bear + -er.
Base: bear
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bearers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]
gloss: One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
pos: noun
examples: I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
gloss: A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A domestic servant in charge of household goods and clothing; a valet.
pos: noun
tags: India
dated
examples: The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
gloss: A waiter in a hotel or restaurant.
pos: noun
tags: India
gloss: A tree or plant yielding fruit.
pos: noun
examples: a good bearer
In the common mode of pruning, this species of vine is no great bearer; but managed as it is here, it produces wonderfully.
gloss: Someone who delivers a letter or message on behalf of another (especially as referred to in the letter or message).
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: […] Wilt thou know
Th’ effect of what I wrote? […]
An earnest conjuration from the King,
As England was his faithful tributary, […]
That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
Without debatement further, more or less,
He should the bearers put to sudden death,
P. S. If you’d send your pipes by the Bearer[…], I would put them in order, and play some Melancholy tunes, […]
1784, Samuel Johnson, letter cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume 2, p. 487,
Sir, The bearer is my godson, whom I take the liberty of recommending to your kindness […]
The message was brought, and Winterborne sent the bearer back to say that he begged the lady’s pardon, but that he could not do as she requested;
[…] he gave him a note to Mr. Harmon, one of the head managers of Durham’s—
“The bearer, Jurgis Rudkus, is a particular friend of mine, and I would like you to find him a good place […]
gloss: A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
pos: noun
gloss: A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
pos: noun
Derived words: ape-bearer
armorbearer
armor-bearer
armourbearer
arms bearer
arms-bearer
bearer bond
Bearer English
bearer note
bearer of bad news
bearership
bearess
bell-bearer
boat bearer
boatbearer
book-bearer
bowbearer
bread-bearer
cardbearer
casebearer
childbearer
colorbearer
cross bearer
cross-bearer
cup-bearer
cupbearer
cup bearer
dooly-bearer
everbearer
fanbearer
flag-bearer
flag bearer
frost-bearer
furbearer
gunbearer
livebearer
mace-bearer
myrrhbearer
pallbearer
purse-bearer
ringbearer
rushbearer
scalloped sack-bearer
shield-bearer
standard-bearer
stretcher-bearer
swordbearer
sword-bearer
tale-bearer
talebearer
tale bearer
torchbearer
train-bearer
trainbearer
truthbearer
Water Bearer
year bearer
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