Bearer

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈbɛəɹə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)

Origin

bear + -er

Full definition of bearer

Noun

1. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
• Bible, 2 Chron. ii. 18Bearers of burdens.
• DrydenThe bearer of unhappy news.
2. Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; pallbearer.
3. One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
4. (India, dated) A domestic servant or palanquin carrier.
• 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 60: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.
5. A tree or plant yielding fruit.a good bearer
6. (printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
7. (printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Anagrams

• rebear