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gravedigger
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person employed to dig graves. 2 A necrophore, or burying beetle.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A gravedigger is a person who digs graves. "Gravedigger", "Gravediggers" or "grave digger" may also refer to: Grobari (Serbian for "gravediggers"), fans of FK Partizan Belgrade Grave Digger (truck) , a monster truck Gravedigger (book) is a book by Joseph ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who earns a living by digging graves
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also grave-digger , 1590s, from grave (n.) + agent noun from dig (v.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also patron of amputees, basketweavers, gravediggers, and hermits; he is invoked against eczema. ▪ Hard-pressed gravediggers are burying as many as 100 people a day. ▪ Some cats outlasted him and I became their gravedigger - ...
Usage examples of gravedigger.
Madoc drove the gravediggers to get the cadavers covered before they became too putrid and flyblown to handle.
The working class of the ex-Soviet Union will come to understand fully the meaning and importance of the heroic struggle carried out by Leon Trotsky against the usurpers and gravediggers of the Russian Revolution and will once again take the road of genuine socialism, under the democratic administration of the working class, rejecting the one-party state and parasitic bureaucracies.
On the credit side, my old friend the First Gravedigger (General Havelock to you) finally got up off his Puritan rump and struck through Allahabad at Cawnpore.
Gravediggers probably have stacks of grave markers made up with that sentiment, carved with those very words.
If this series has really stopped, then it will soon be nothing but past history and we won't have anything to show for it but a couple of plaster casts, a few contradictory stories told by some not too bright mortuary workers and gravediggers -- and what kind of investigation can we conduct with that?
He worked for the government for a while as a cook, or a gravedigger at Arlington Cemetary, or a data somethingorother specialist.