different between hyrse vs herse

English

Etymology

German Hirse, Old High German Hirsi.

Noun

hyrse (uncountable)

1. millet

Anagrams

• Hyres, reysh, shyer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??(?)s/

Noun

herse (plural herses)

1. A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

2. Obsolete form of hearse (a carriage for the dead)
3. (obsolete) A funeral ceremony.

Verb

herse (third-person singular simple present herses, present participle hersing, simple past and past participle hersed)

1. Alternative form of hearse
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Sospetto d'Herode

     The house is hers'd about with a black wood, Which nods with many a heavy-headed tree: Each flower's a pregnant poison, try'd and good; Each herb a plague.

   • 1598-1615, George Chapman (translator), Iliad

     The Grecians spritefully drew from the darts the corse, And hers'd it, bearing it to fleet.

   • 1596-99, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1

     I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear. O, would she were hers'd at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin.

Anagrams

• Esher, Rhees, Sheer, heers, here's, heres, sheer

French

Etymology

Latin hirpex.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /??s/

Noun

herse f (plural herses)

1. harrow (device for breaking up soil)
2. portcullis (gate in the form of a grating)
3. spike strip, road spikes, traffic spikes
4. grate, grill (especially to block large objects floating down a river)
5. candlestick, candelabrum (with a triangular base and spikes to hold large candles)
6. stage lighting instrument, luminaire that disperses light over a stage
7. (heraldry) portcullis

Verb

herse

1. first-person singular present indicative of herser
2. third-person singular present indicative of herser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of herser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of herser
5. second-person singular present imperative of herser

Further reading

• “herse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).