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BEARER

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEARER  , strictly " one who carries," a

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term used in India for a palanquin-bearer, and now especially for a
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body-servant . The term is also used in connexion with military ambulances, and " bearer " companies formed
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part of the Royal Army Medical Corps until amalgamated with the field-hospitals to form field-ambulances (1905) . In banking and commerce the word is applied to the holder or presenter of a cheque or draft not made payable to a specific person; it has also a technical use, as iri printing, of anything that supports pressure in machinery, &c .

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