gravedigger

[ greyv-dig-er ]

noun

Origin of gravedigger

First recorded in 1585–95; grave¹ + digger

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Gravediggers were running out of space, and residents were panicked.
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This volume includes the dodge-the-obvious profiles of the attending emergency room physician and gravedigger for the slain JFK.
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He had spent several years as a gravedigger and gardener at a cemetery in Germany before returning to Puglia.
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“I never heard that part of the story before,” said Lady Engleton, when the gravedigger had left.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona Caird
The trees waved and bent and murmured, as though they gossiped with each other over this odd gravedigger.
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The entertainment is followed by a counter-invitation; and the gravedigger is forced to pay a return visit.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
The best of these, and one of the most popular of the kind, is probably the 'Song of the gravedigger.'
The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century | Leo Wiener
In an old abbey town, a long, long while ago there officiated as sexton and gravedigger in the churchyard one Gabriel Grubb.
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