berrin'

plural berrin's · alternative berrin

1. UKdialectalobsoleteA funeral; a burying.

   "What's that to you?" said Trevool, rather sharply, "worn't I to a berrin? […]

   1867, Cornish Tales, in prose and verse by various authors, page 33

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   A man whom Tom knew was returning one evening from a fair, a little elevated of course, when he met a berrin (i. e. funeral), which he joined, as is the custom; but, to his surprise, there was no one there that he knew except one man, and he had been dead for some years.

   1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 367

   'Aw, my son,' she said, 'you do taake my meanin'; but theer, I do dearly love a berrin'.' Yes, a funeral is as dear to the Cornish heart as a preaching.

   1898, The Cornish Magazine, volume 1, page 468