boatbearer

noun

Etymology

From boat + bearer.

  1. inherited from berere
  2. inherited from berer
  3. compounded as boatbearer — “boat + bearer

Definitions

  1. A clergyman who carries the incense before it is lit.

    • He remembered the summer evening he had been there to be dressed as a boatbearer, the evening of the procession to the little altar in the wood.

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