bearer

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɛəɹə/    美 /ˈbeɹɚ/|/bɛəɹɚ/|/ˈbeːɹə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.
    — And he [Solomon] set threescore and ten thousand of them [the foreigners living in Israel] to be bearers of burdens,
  2. Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
    — Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed outstretch’d, If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d, But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers, For one Carrier put down to make six bearers.
  3. One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
    — I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
  4. A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.
  5. A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.
    — Within an hour of our finally deciding to start five litters were brought up to the door of the cave, each accompanied by four regular bearers and two spare hands, also a band of about fifty armed Amahagger, who were to form the escort and carry the baggage.
  6. A domestic servant in charge of household goods and clothing; a valet. India,dated
    — The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
  7. A waiter in a hotel or restaurant. India
  8. A tree or plant yielding fruit.
    — a good bearer
  9. Someone who delivers a letter or message on behalf of another (especially as referred to in the letter or message). dated
    — […] Wilt thou know Th’ effect of what I wrote? […] An earnest conjuration from the King, As England was his faithful tributary, […] That, on the view and knowing of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death,
  10. A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
  11. A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

词形变化

bearers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ape-bearer armorbearer armor-bearer armourbearer arms bearer arms-bearer bearer bond Bearer English bearer note bearer of bad news bearership bearess bell-bearer boat bearer boatbearer book-bearer bowbearer bread-bearer cardbearer casebearer childbearer colorbearer cross bearer cross-bearer cup-bearer cupbearer cup bearer dooly-bearer everbearer fanbearer flag-bearer flag bearer frost-bearer furbearer gunbearer livebearer mace-bearer myrrhbearer pallbearer purse-bearer ringbearer rushbearer scalloped sack-bearer shield-bearer standard-bearer stretcher-bearer swordbearer sword-bearer tale-bearer talebearer tale bearer torchbearer train-bearer trainbearer truthbearer Water Bearer year bearer

词源

From Middle English berer, berere, from Old English berere (attested in Old English wæterberere (“waterbearer”)), equivalent to bear + -er.
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