What's the difference between casket and pallbearer?
Casket
Definition:
(n.) A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
(n.) A kind of burial case.
(n.) Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed
(n.) The body.
(n.) The tomb.
(n.) A book of selections.
(n.) A gasket. See Gasket.
(v. t.) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
(2) The military arrived with a casket to collect Mandela's body at about midnight so it could be taken to a military hospital in the capital, Pretoria, where it will lie in state this week .
(3) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
(4) The images showed mourners, including Liu Xia, gathered beside a casket that was ringed by pots of white chrysanthemums.
(5) Pictures of the funeral show her bowed over her husband's casket, stricken with grief.
(6) The casket containing Havel's body was being transported from the Prague Crossroads, a former church turned by Havel into a cultural centre, to the Prague castle, the seat of the presidency, where it will be on display until Friday's state funeral.
(7) When the private service ended, House Speaker Paul Ryan bowed his head at the casket, made the sign of the cross and clasped his hands in prayer for about a minute.
(8) At the church, a large bouquet of red roses and a St Louis Cardinals baseball cap adorned Brown’s closed casket.
(9) The pen is being sold together with two silver caskets, one of which was presented to Lord Carson on Ulster Day to mark the occasion, the other having been a gift by Unionists to Lady Carson in 1914, to mark their wedding anniversary.
(10) Rain fell softly on Eric Garner’s white casket as it was loaded into a hearse that would drive the 43-year-old father, who died after a New York police officer put him in a chokehold , to his final resting place following an emotional funeral on Wednesday night.
(11) While an increasing number opt of people for “green burials” – which tend to involve burials in meadow and woodland sites, in biodegradable shrouds or caskets made of anything from cardboard to banana leaf – others ponder the role cemeteries play in our cities, and what it would mean if we lost them altogether.
(12) A lone trumpeter played the Last Post as troops in dress uniform saluted then carried the wooden caskets to a row of hearses.
(13) The casket will be on display at the 15th century Vladislav hall until the funeral on Friday.
(14) Others were seen throwing flowers on the casket, also wrapped in the Iraqi flag.
(15) After the prayers, Davis led mourners in taking turns to pay their respects, standing quietly by her mother’s casket.
(16) An Iraqi flag draped over her shoulder, his mother led the mourners carrying his wooden casket and pounding their chests in grief.
(17) And then a few days later, I was there greeting the caskets coming into Andrews Air Force Base and grieving with the families.
(18) The archives of the Robert Koch Institute include a casket with preparations and handwritten notes by Robert Koch (Fig.
(19) WB I remember vividly the photographs in Jet magazine of Emmett Till in his casket in 1955.
(20) The grieving paused Friday in front of Sterling’s open casket, which was adorned with music notes and a smiling photo of the man.
Pallbearer
Definition:
(n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the hour-long ceremony, which was closed to the media and where her coffin was draped in a white cloth and carried by six pallbearers, relatives stood outside and friends paid their condolences, hugging Steenkamp's parents.
(2) A second witness said pallbearers abandoned coffins they were carrying and ran for cover when the funeral came under fire.
(3) Only the squeaking of the boots of the military pallbearers could be heard in the Calvary church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Thursday as Chad Vollmer's coffin was wheeled to the front.
(4) There was the deathbed confession, the last rites, the pallbearers, the obligatory altar call , the burial ceremony, the stone, the angels-and-harps imagery.
(5) The PSNI has since vowed to use new forms of facial recognition imagery to arrest the masked pallbearers at Catney's funeral.
(6) After the ecumenical service ended, people lined up on either side of the cathedral’s long stairs holding “Unite for Philando” signs as pallbearers dressed in white raised clenched fists while carrying out his casket.
(7) Will Smith – who portrayed Ali in the eponymous 2001 film – and the former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis were pallbearers at the funeral.
(8) Pallbearers carried the coffin of a senior Russian policeman at his funeral in Volgograd on Thursday, four days after he died in a suicide bomb blast in the city's main railway station .
(9) The mourners followed the pallbearers and the corpse they carried through the dusty streets toward the cemetery, past white stone buildings in varying states of construction and collapse.
(10) They hoisted the long blue mattress high, like pallbearers with a coffin, for a few hours one beautiful autumn morning at Columbia, giggling and chatting like young women anywhere, but also ferociously intent on solidarity in the form of transporting this symbol of conflict up stairs and along walkways.