Bible Dictionaries
Herse

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A funeral ceremonial.

(2):

(v. t.) Same as Hearse, v. t.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(n.) See Hearse, a carriage for the dead.