What's the difference between hearse and herse?

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.

Herse


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy.
  • (n.) See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.
  • (n.) A funeral ceremonial.
  • (v. t.) Same as Hearse, v. t.

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