bierbalk

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noun

A church road (such as a path across fields) for funerals.

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Meanings

nounbierbalk (plural bierbalks)

plural bierbalks

  1. obsoleteA 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

    1571, John Jewel et al., “An Homily for Rogation week”, in The Second Tome of Homilees […]

Origin

From bier + balk.

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APA

bierbalk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bierbalk

MLA

“bierbalk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bierbalk. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bierbalk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bierbalk.

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