Crossword clues for undertaker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undertaker \Un`der*tak"er\, n.
One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
--Beau. & Fl.-
One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.
To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter.
--Evelyn.In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders.
--South. Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "a contractor or projecter of any sort," agent noun from undertake (v.). The specialized sense (1690s) emerged from funeral-undertaker.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations 2 (context historical English) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.
WordNet
n. one whose business is the management of funerals [syn: mortician, funeral undertaker, funeral director]
Wikipedia
Undertaker is another name for a funeral director, someone involved in the business of funeral rites.
'''Undertaker ''' or The Undertaker may also refer to:
The Undertaker comics were a short series of comic book adaptations of the professional wrestler, The Undertaker. It was produced by the now defunct Chaos! Comics and was written by Beau Smith, with art by Manny Clark.
It focused mostly on his ( kayfabe) background and also featured such characters as Paul Bearer, Mankind and the Undertaker's half-brother Kane.
Usage examples of "undertaker".
I was apprenticing to be an undertaker, my master taught me a little about such things.
A tall, lank-haired man, looking more like an undertaker than a divine of any denomination, read straight through, without a syllable of preface, the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, and then, kneeling down, began a rambling, extemporaneous prayer, the main object of which seemed to be, to address the Deity by as many periphrastic adjurations as possible.
No undertaker had intervened, however, to prettify the death of Horrible.
Howard Best, the undertaker, shook hands with David Traver, president of the Middletown Trust Company.
Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives.
Quiet among the undertakers and the equipages and the calves of so many legs all steeped in grief, Mr. Bucket sits concealed in one of the inconsolable carriages and at his ease surveys the crowd through the lattice blinds.
Quiet among the undertakers and the equipages and the calves of so many legs all steeped in grief, Mr.
The tall, lean, balding clergyman looked and sounded more like an undertaker than a priest, and seemed to have a dour expression at all times as well.
But the undertaker messed up the job, and the guy's neck was bent and his head was out of round, like a car tire had run over it, and the dagos were slobbering and wailing all over the place while Sal's singing on the mike in a white suit like he's Tony Bennett.
The bodies of the Bordens were still on the dining room table, awaiting the arrival of the undertaker.
The bureau of vital statistics of the city furnished him with the name of the undertaker who had handled the funeral of Hubert Brackenridge, and the department of the State police devoted to traffic accidents was able to give him the exact spot—in this case, they furnished him with the name of a trooper who had covered the Brackenridge death—where the accident had occurred.
It had been embalmed, and it had been dead for some time, and the undertaker who buried Hubert Brackenridge identified what was left of it as the body he buried.
Jack Smith, the Fluxion an critic, looking like an undertaker with chronic gastritis.
We haven't any great wish to drum up business for the undertakers.
And there is the Board, the full Board mind you, looking like a convention of undertakers who have just been informed of the discovery of Pasteur's vaccine Dicky stopped, the memory was too painful, and he sighed heavily.