Usually means: Gate with spikes, portcullis type.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. herse: Merriam-Webster
  2. herse: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Herse, herse: Wordnik
  4. Herse, herse: Wiktionary
  5. Herse: Dictionary.com
  6. Herse (moon), Herse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Herse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. herse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Herse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. herse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. herse: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Herse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Herse: Dictionary of Military Architecture

Definitions from Wiktionary (herse)

noun:  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.
noun:  (obsolete) A funeral ceremony.
noun:  (astronomy) One of the moons of Jupiter.
noun:  Obsolete form of hearse (“a carriage for the dead”). [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.]
verb:  Alternative form of hearse [(dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.]

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