Definition of "herse" [herse]

• Alternative form of hearse. (verb)

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• "The name herse was then applied to the draped catafalque or platform upon which the candles stood and the coffin rested, not as now the word hearse to a carriage for the conveyance of the dead."
• "I never did hold with a woman killin 'herse'f with hard work."
• "Dere didn ''pear ter be nuffin' pertickler de matter wid her, -- she had des grieve 'herse'f ter def fer her Sandy."