Bierbalk

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A church road (such as a path across fields) for funerals. obsolete

    "their ancestors left of their land a broad and sufficient bierbalk to carry the corpse to the Christian sepulture"

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"their ancestors left of their land a broad and sufficient bierbalk to carry the corpse to the Christian sepulture"

Etymology

From bier + balk.

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