Crossword clues for gravedigger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gravedigger \Grave"dig`ger\, n.
A digger of graves.
(Zo["o]l.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person employed to dig graves. 2 A necrophore, or burying beetle.
WordNet
n. a person who earns a living by digging graves
Wikipedia
A gravedigger is a cemetery worker responsible for digging a grave prior to a funeral service.
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 Hansen
"Gravedigger" is a song by Dave Matthews from his debut solo album, Some Devil. This was the first solo single released by Matthews away from the Dave Matthews Band, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards held on February 8, 2004. The song has been performed live by Dave Matthews (solo), by Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, at Dave Matthews & Friends concerts, and occasionally as an acoustic solo by Matthews during Dave Matthews Band shows. During the Dave Matthews Band's tours in 2008 and 2009, it was played regularly by the full band.
Matthews said about the song:
"It's kind of these different stories that are brought together by walking through a graveyard with their names and the dates of their births and their deaths, and the stories that came out of their lives. It's sort of just telling those stories and some others as you wander through a graveyard and what you might think if you could walk into the graves and find out what people went through to get there."
There was also an acoustic version of the song on the album Some Devil. The song began as an intro played twice solo by Matthews at full-band DMB shows in the spring of 2002, before debuting as a full solo song in the same tour. In the original "Gravedigger Intro" version, only two people are mentioned: Merrill Lee (1905–1969) and Robert John Smith.
Gravedigger is a codename used by two fictional soldiers published by DC Comics. Captain Ulysses Hazard the first Gravedigger debuted in Men of War #1 (August 1977), and was created by David Michelinie and Ed Davis. Tyson Sykes the second Gravedigger debuted in Checkmate vol. 2 #25 (June 2008), and was created by Greg Rucka, Eric Trautmann and Joe Bennett.
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.