bierbalk

noun

Etymology

From bier + balk.

  1. inherited from *balkô
  2. derived from bálkr
  3. inherited from balca
  4. inherited from balke
  5. compounded as bierbalk — “bier + balk

Definitions

  1. 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 sepulture

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bierbalk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA