bearer

noun11

1. •
   One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

   • And he [Solomon] set threescore and ten thousand of them [the foreigners living in Israel] to be bearers of burdens, — 1611
2. •
   Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.

   • Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed outstretch’d, If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d, But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers, For one Carrier put down to make six bearers. — 1645
3. •
   A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.
4. •
   A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.
5. •
   (old-fashioned) Someone who delivers a letter or message on behalf of another (especially as referred to in the letter or message).

   • P. S. If you’d send your pipes by the Bearer[…], I would put them in order, and play some Melancholy tunes, […] — 1754
6. •
   One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.

   • I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
7. •
   A tree or plant yielding fruit.

   • In the common mode of pruning, this species of vine is no great bearer; but managed as it is here, it produces wonderfully. — 1791
8. •
   (India) A waiter in a hotel or restaurant.
9. •
   (India, old-fashioned) A domestic servant in charge of household goods and clothing; a valet.

   • The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it. — 1888
10. •
    A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.
11. •
    A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.