bierbalk

English

Etymology

bier +‎ balk

Noun

bierbalk (plural bierbalks)

  1. (obsolete) A church road (such as a path across fields) for funerals.
    • 1571, John Jewel et al., “An Homily for Rogation week”, in The Second Tome of Homilees […] :
      their ancestors left of their land a broad and sufficient bierbalk to carry the corpse to the Christian sepulture

References

“bierbalk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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