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Bearer

noun

Someone whose employment involves carrying something. Synonyms: carrier, toter.

A messenger who bears or presents.

One of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral. Synonym: pallbearer.

The person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it. Synonym: holder.

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... rustily manoeuvred into a sitting position; and, with eyes still closed, made shift to accept the julep in both hands, drained half of it, opened his eyes, and thanked the cup-bearer feebly, in a voice and accent reminiscent of the ...

— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington

... Paulus Lenaertssen begins to make objections, which he does not easily do for any one else, which causes suspicion in the minds of many. There remains to complete this court-bench, the secretary and the fiscaal, Hendrick van Dyck,(5) who had previously been an ensign-bearer. Director Stuyvesant has kept him twenty-nine months out of the meetings of the council, for the reason among others which His Honor assigned, that he cannot keep secret but will make public, what is ...

— Narrative of New Netherland • Various

... I have modelled her on my first love. How we, a band of tallish school-boys, the chums of her two brothers, how we used to look up to that girl just out of the schoolroom herself, as the standard-bearer of a faith to which we all were born but which she alone knew how to hold aloft with an unflinching hope! She had perhaps more glow and less serenity in her soul than Antonia, but she was an uncompromising Puritan of patriotism with no taint of the slightest worldliness in her thoughts. I was ...

— Notes on My Books • Joseph Conrad

... do me a real service, according to your kind words of Saturday, be in the upper shrubbery at half past eleven; but tell no one except the bearer. You will see all that happens better there than on the beach, and I will bring ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... after the receipt of my letter my wife was awoke very early in the morning to be informed of our arrival in France. The courier who brought this intelligence was the bearer of a second letter from me, which I had written on board ship, and dated from Frejus. In this letter I mentioned that Bonaparte would pass through Seas ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v3 • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

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