Meaning of herse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.
2. One of the moons of Jupiter.
3. A funeral ceremony.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“In the south aisle, on a slab raised on four low shafts and covered by an iron herse, is a fine coloured recumbent effigy of a bishop”

“Dido, my deare, alas! Dead, and lyeth wrapt in lead. O heavie herse!”

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