bierbalk

noun

bierbalk

noun

Etymology From bier + balk.

1

Obsolete A 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 sepulture1571, John Jewel et al., “An Homily for Rogation week”, in The Second Tome of Homilees […] :

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