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. Farrow.
See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.
A funeral ceremonial. [Obs.] Spenser.
Same as Hearse, v. t. Chapman.
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