Beaker folk: Meaning and Definition of

Beak'er folk"

Pronunciation: (bē'kur), [key]
  1. a late Neolithic to Copper Age people living in Europe, so called in reference to the bell beakers commonly found buried with their dead in barrows. Also called
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