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the last ride you'll never complain about being too slow.
means A vehicle used to carry a coffin to a funeral or burial.
from From Old French 'herce,' a harrow — a toothed farming rake. The word traveled through a strange path: that triangular, spiked harrow shape was borrowed for a frame holding candles over a coffin in church (the candles standing like the rake's teeth), then for the canopy or structure raised over a tomb, and finally — by the 17th century or so — for the carriage that bears the body to the grave. Ultimately from Latin 'hirpex,' a harrow, possibly from an Oscan word for 'wolf,' as in a wolf's jagged teeth.
- word origin
- From Latin for harrow, a spiked farming rake.
- second careers
- Bought cheap by ghost-tour and band-touring buyers.
- car shows
- Hearse fan clubs exist and stage proud meetups.
- speed records
- A Rolls-Royce hearse once topped 100 mph.
- horse era
- Originally horse-drawn, plumed black horses included.
lincoln's hearse — transported president abraham lincoln's body across us on 1865 funeral train, 1,700 miles over 14 days