What's the difference between hearse and hearselike?
Hearse
Definition:
(n.) A hind in the year of its age.
(n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
(n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
(n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
(n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
(v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 200 people attended the East End-style funeral, complete with a horse-drawn hearse.
(2) Builders and plumbers want to cut corners by taking their final journey in a white van, while farmers fancy a send-off on a horse-drawn cart, tractor or even a specially manufactured Land Rover hearse and matching limousine.
(3) A pipe and drum band and mounted members of law enforcement in dress uniform advanced before the hearse.
(4) Unusual hearses – once a niche market – are setting a trend for send-offs with a difference as almost a quarter (23%) of Britons say they want to make their last journey in a personalised vehicle, according to new research from the UK’s biggest funeral director.
(5) Mark Gatiss , who co-created Sherlock with Moffat and wrote the third series' opening episode, The Empty Hearse, said: "We knew right from the start how we were going to do it.
(6) 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.
(7) A lone trumpeter played the Last Post as troops in dress uniform saluted then carried the wooden caskets to a row of hearses.
(8) Earlier in the day, Ali’s hearse had made a slow procession to the Cave Hill cemetery.
(9) The company, which has a network of more than 900 funeral homes across the UK, carried out a study into alternative hearses which are now used in almost 40,000 funerals every year.
(10) The hearses of the two men were parked at the front of the parking lot to be prayed on before they were driven out to lead a procession of mourners to the mosque.
(11) There are also alternatives for hire like a camper van hearse or a motorbike hearse.
(12) After Gately's coffin was carried out of the church, the surviving members of Boyzone stood behind the hearse in a silent group, huddled for a few minutes' reflection while local women and children showered them and the hearse with dozens of white roses.
(13) This time, the coffin will be transferred to a horse-drawn hearse, to lead the way to a service of compline, with a sermon from a Roman Catholic archbishop, Vincent Nicholls.
(14) In utter silence, the coffins were carefully loaded into hearses and taken away for identification at Hilversum.
(15) You don’t have to dig deep for a funeral – there are cheaper alternatives Read more You don’t have to transport the dead in a hearse.
(16) I imagine there will be one hearse for me and the rest will be bikes.
(17) Some sheltered from the rain in shop doorways, hours ahead of the moment the hearses carrying the bodies were to be driven through the town on their way to a hospital in Oxford.
(18) At 1.30pm, the coffin was carried out of St Laurence's on the shoulders of Gately's bandmates and placed in the hearse that would take him on to the Glasnevin cemetery.
(19) But if you choose to do it all yourself, with an eco-coffin, a basic cremation and an estate car or van instead of a hearse, it’s possible to get the cost down to a fraction of that – perhaps as little as £400.
(20) She had no idea when the body was buried and never saw hearses enter or leave the property.