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Church caretaker and attendant
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verger
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Word definitions for verger in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ One of them I knew, I've been introduced to him - by Mr Soames the verger . ▪ The verger was keeping his eye on the public. ▪ The verger was waiting beside the opened far doors. ▪ These might include clergy, vergers and others, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
People with the surname Verger : Charles Paumier du Verger , early 20th-century Belgian sports shooter François Verger (born 1911), a French field hockey player Georges Verger , French long-distance runner who competed in the 1924 Olympics Giovanni Battista ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who carries a verge as an officer of the church," c.1400, probably from Anglo-French *verger , from verge (see verge (n.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies
Usage examples of verger.
Spivens was over by the vestry steps digging up something, and Carruthers was trying to convince the verger we were from the Auxiliary Fire Service.
I was going to have to get him back to Oxford without making the verger suspicious, get him to Infirmary, and then try to get back here to finish searching the cathedral and probably end up in a marrows field halfway to Liverpool.
The verger had been gone for at least an hour having his tea, during which time anyone could have walked in through the nonexistent south door and carried off anything they liked.
I looked over at Carruthers, but he was deep in royal conversation with the verger and, presumably, getting some information out of him.
For Lulu and a thousand others, let me remind, I, Monsieur Verger, did it all!
Awed, even a little frightened by his new Lulu, Monsieur Verger limited himself to a single peep while she redressed.
It was, of course, a very unorthodox thing for the verger to go away and leave the Abbey unattended, even for half an hour, but vergers, after all, are only human, and enjoy a cup of tea as much as other people who do not wear black cassocks.
It was no cassock-clad verger that entered, however, but two young people, far too much interested in each other to gaze upwards towards the frets of the peep-hole.
At last the quiet well-trained footsteps of the verger echoed again in the nave.
They were terrified lest the verger should remember that he had left the tower door open, and should lock them in.
There was a pause while the verger fetched a music stand and placed it close to the chancel steps.
Declan Ewan, the Verger, watched the rain pelting down the hill in eager rivulets, and gathering into a little sea outside the vestry gate.
It looked round, perhaps because it heard the warnings the Verger was yelling, but more likely, he thought, because it knew, knew without being told, that the woman had been found.
There was also Father Varennes, the Verger, and far away in one of the small chapels opening from the apse in the eastern end good Mother Meraut was down upon her knees, not praying as you might suppose, but scrubbing the stone floor.
The Verger peered through the arched opening, and sniffed the wet, soapy smell which pervaded the air.