Pall

pawl, n. a cloak or mantle, an outer garment: a chalice-cover: ( her. ) a Y-shaped bearing charged with cro es patté fitché , as in the arms of the see of Canterbury—sometimes reversed: a pallium (q.v.): a curtain or covering: the cloth over a coffin at a funeral: that which brings deep sorrow.— n. Pall′-bear′er , one of the mourners at a funeral who used to hold up the corners of the pall. [A.S. pæll , purple cloth—L. palla , a mantle; cf. Pallium , a cloak.]