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Definition of Herse
1. n. A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.
2. v. t. Same as Hearse,
Definition of Herse
1. a harrow [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herse
Literary usage of Herse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"herse. Apparently for that which rehearsed; the same as HERS AL. ... herse" form
the two burden of a funeral ditty, the commentator EK, explains it, ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"First (perhaps) used by Chaucer : ' Adown l feil when I saw the herse ; ' Complaint
... Chaucer appears to use the term herse to denote the decorated bier, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... and herse, opened it, they became frantic and threw themselves from the
Acropolis of Athens. The scene of the opening of the basket i- represented on a ..."
4. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machyn, John Gough Nichols (1848)
"A herse is occasionally mentioned by our author ; but the term was not then ...
But the herse was, on grand occasions, ready to receive the corpse when it ..."
5. Supplement to Spons ̓dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military by Edward Spon, Francis N. Spon (1880)
"The main result of their deductions was, that in moving machinery the power of
a herse was on the average equivalent to raising one pound 33000 feet in one ..."
6. A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture by John Henry Parker (1845)
"herse—HINGE. and set upon the said stone, over the image, to beare a covering to
he or- ... under a rich herse, ..."
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