different between casket vs hearse

English

Etymology

Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask +? -et. Doublet of cassette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæs.k?t/, /?k??.sk?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæs.k?t/

Noun

casket (plural caskets)

1. A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 5

     They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.

2. (Britain) An urn.
3. (Canada, US) A coffin.
4. (nautical) A gasket.

Translations

Verb

casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)

1. (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 5,^[1]

     I have […] casketed my treasure.

Related terms

• cask

References

Anagrams

• sacket

English

Etymology

From Middle English herse, hers, herce, from Old French herce, from Medieval Latin hercia, from Latin herpicem, hirpex; ultimately from Oscan ???????????????????????? (hirpus, “wolf”), a reference to the teeth. The Oscan term is related to Latin h?rs?tus (“bristly, shaggy”). Doublet of hirsute.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hûrs
• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h??s/, [h?s]
• Rhymes: -??(r)s

Noun

hearse (plural hearses)

1. A hind (female deer) in the second year of her age.
2. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
3. A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
4. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
5. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.

Translations

References

• hearse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “hearse” in the Collins English Dictionary
• “hearse”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Verb

hearse (third-person singular simple present hearses, present participle hearsing, simple past and past participle hearsed)

1. (dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

Anagrams

• harees, heares, sharee