Definition of bearer

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Bearer (n.) Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.

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Torchbearer :: Torchbearer (n.) One whose office it is to carry a torch.
Underbearer :: Underbearer (n.) One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall..
Hypaspist :: Hypaspist (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer.
Claviger :: Claviger (n.) One who carries a club; a club bearer.
Taleteller :: Taleteller (n.) One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler..
Bearer :: Bearer (n.) A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant..
Squire :: Squire (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
Escalop :: Escalop (n.) The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land..
Buzzer :: Buzzer (n.) One who, or that which, buzzes; a whisperer; a talebearer..
Aquarius :: Aquarius (n.) The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East..
Bearer :: Bearer (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer..
Bank Bill :: Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note..
Alferes :: Alferes (n.) An ensign; a standard bearer.
Carrytale :: Carrytale (n.) A talebearer.
Cupbearer :: Cupbearer (n.) One of the attendants of a prince or noble, permanently charged with the performance of this office for his master..
Shield-bearer :: Shield-bearer (n.) Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves..
Undergo :: Undergo (v. t.) To be the bearer of; to possess.
Messenger :: Messenger (n.) One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages..
Sycophant :: Sycophant (n.) An informer; a talebearer.
Water-bearer :: Water-bearer (n.) The constellation Aquarius.
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