sexton
noun
an official of a church charged with taking care of the edifice and its contents, ringing the bell, etc., and sometimes with burying the dead.
undersexton
-
a word derived from
sexton.
Example Sentences
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The name of one was John Hayward, who was at that time undersexton of the parish of St Stephen, Coleman Street.
From A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Daniel Defoe
By undersexton was understood at that time gravedigger and bearer of the dead.
From A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Daniel Defoe
