Crossword clues for sexton
sexton
- Bell-ringer's relations not converted
- It's not over for the vicar's helper
- Church officer
- Poet Anne
- Church's caretaker
- Church worker
- Sacristy tender
- Ringer of church bells
- Poet with the 1967 Pulitzer-winning volume "Live or Die"
- One who rings a bell
- Church maintenance officer
- Church maintenance man
- Church bellringer
- Church bell-ringer or grave-digger
- "The Awful Rowing Toward God" poet
- "All My Pretty Ones" poet
- Bell ringer, at times
- Church groundskeeper
- Church bell ringer
- Churchyard gravedigger
- United States poet (1928-1974)
- An officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects
- Official in a church or synagogue
- Poet or church official
- Church custodian
- Church official in charge of sacred objects
- Gravedigger has lewd message being broadcast
- Church worker is to keep sending rude messages
- Church employee
- Church caretaker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sexton \Sex"ton\, n. [OE. sextein, contr. fr. sacristan.] An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
Sexton beetle (Zo["o]l.), a burying beetle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, sekesteyn, "person in charge of the sacred objects of a church," from Old French segrestien, from Medieval Latin sacristanus (see sacristan). Sense of "custodian of a church" first recorded 1580s. Fem. forms sextress, sextrice are recorded 15c., but the usual form is sextoness (early 15c.).
Wiktionary
n. A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.
Wikipedia
A sexton is an officer of a church, congregation, or synagogue charged with the maintenance of its buildings and/or the surrounding graveyard. In smaller places of worship, this office is often combined with that of verger. In larger buildings, such as cathedrals, a team of sextons may be employed.
Historically in North America and the United Kingdom the "sexton" was sometimes a minor municipal official responsible for overseeing the town graveyard. In the United Kingdom the position still exists today, related to management of the community's graveyard, and the sexton is usually employed by the town/parish or community council.
The 25pdr SP, tracked, Sexton was a self-propelled artillery vehicle of World War II. It was based on Canadian-built versions of the American M3 Lee and M4 Sherman tank chassis, which entered production in Canada as the Ram and Grizzly. When Sherman production in the US expanded and supply was no longer a problem, in 1943 it was decided to switch the Canadian production lines to produce the Sexton to give the British Army a mobile artillery gun using their Ordnance QF 25 pounder gun-howitzer, which could fire an HE shell or an armour-piercing shell. It found use in the Canadian and British Army, as well as numerous other British Empire and associated forces. Just after the war, a number of Grizzly and Sextons were sold to Portugal, who used them into the 1980s.
Sexton may refer to:
- Sexton (artillery), a self-propelled artillery vehicle of World War II
- Sexton (office), a church or synagogue officer charged with the maintenance of the church buildings and/or the surrounding graveyard; and ringing of the church bells
- Sexton (surname), people with the surname Sexton
- Sexton Hardcastle, nickname for Adam Copeland, a pro wrestler
- Sexton, Arkansas, United States, a former community
- Sexton, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Sexton, Iowa, United States, a former town
- Sexton Glacier, a glacier in Montana, United States
Usage examples of "sexton".
As, however, the sexton with growing frequency overslept himself, the Archdeacon preferred to keep the key of the church himself, and it was with this in his hand that he came to the west door about half-past six the next morning.
I was still enjoying myself with my fine company, when the sexton of the church came in to tell me that they were waiting for me in the vestry.
William Guy, Patterson, Trinkle, Covin, Forbes, and Sexton ventured to come out of the labyrinth, where they were on the verge of death by starvation.
Sexton howl with delight, he went to his desk and penned a grateful acceptance to Miss Gordon, saying that although he was going away for a few days on a decanal tour, not even the Archbishop of Canterbury would keep him from her party.
Dominic, George Ashworth, Maddock, probably the vicar and the sexton too.
Sexton washes the salt from the first-floor windows while Honora scrubs the kitchen cupboards.
As she washes him, she thinks about how fate contrived to have Sexton Beecher open a map and select a route and drive to Taft, New Hampshire, and walk into a bank and find Honora Willard on the other side of the grille.
Wailee Ming, Rachel Sexton, Norah Mangor, Michael Tolland, and Corky Marlinson.
I step through the single gated opening in the high wall and wave to the sexton, a guileless old man named Samuel, whose principal job seems to be to sit on an overpainted metal bench near the neat little stone cottage just inside the cemetery gates, smiling vacuously at every person who enters the grounds.
With Sexton trailing badly in the primary polls and his message of government overspending falling on deaf ears, Gabrielle Ashe wrote him a note suggesting a radical new campaign angle.
In many instances, the sum originally devised for the sustentation of a grave or monument is not sufficient, in the present day, to remunerate residents in London for looking after it, and the money has been transferred to the parish in which the testator lies, and has become the perquisite of the sexton.
These were William Guy, Patterson, Roberts, Coyin, Trinkle, also Forbes and Sexton, since dead.
Sexton Blake continue to run true to form against this new unmonastic background?
The friends of the dead will all be gone by two, and when the sexton locks the gate we shall remain.
Be that as it may, she ended up seducing the poor sexton, who fell so deeply, so hopelessly in love with Amalia that he ended up in the hut of a nagual man.