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bierbalk

bierbalk noun: a church road (such as a path across fields) for funerals.

Noun

bierbalk (plural bierbalks)

  1. (obsolete) A church road (such as a path across fields) for funerals.
    • their ancestors left of their land a broad and sufficient bierbalk to carry the corpse to the Christian sepulture1571, John Jewel et al., “An Homily for Rogation week”, in The Second Tome of Homilees […]

Forms of bierbalk

pluralbierbalks

Origin of bierbalk

From bier + balk.

Questions about bierbalk

What does bierbalk mean?
Bierbalk means a church road (such as a path across fields) for funerals.
What part of speech is bierbalk?
Bierbalk is a noun.
What is the plural of bierbalk?
The plural of bierbalk is bierbalks.

Words near bierbalk in the dictionary

  1. biepitaxial
  2. biequivalent
  3. bier
  4. Bier spot
  5. Bier spots
  6. bierbalk
  7. bierbalks
  8. Bierbaum
  9. Bierbaums
  10. Bierbeek
  11. Bierce

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