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Gravedigger   Listen
noun
Gravedigger  n.  
1.
A digger of graves.
2.
(Zool.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gravedigger" Quotes from Famous Books



... forget one visit. It was a grey, dropping day; the grass was strung with rain-drops; and the people in the houses kept hanging out their shirts and petticoats and angrily taking them in again, as the weather turned from wet to fair and back again. A gravedigger, and a friend of his, a gardener from the country, accompanied me into one after another of the cells and little courtyards in which it gratified the wealthy of old days to enclose their old bones from neighbourhood. In one, under a sort of shrine, we found a forlorn ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson



Words linked to "Gravedigger" :   jack, laborer, manual laborer, labourer



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