Gravedigger

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that digs graves.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person employed to dig graves.
  • n. A necrophore, or burying beetle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A digger of graves.
  • n. See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One whose occupation is the digging of graves.
  • n. A beetle of the genus Necrophorus: so called from its habit of burying dead bodies. Also named sexton. See cut under burying-beetle.
  • n. A digger-wasp, as of the genus Sphex, which digs holes in the clay for its eggs, with which it deposits a store of disabled caterpillars and spiders, to serve as food for the grub when hatched.
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  • n. a person who earns a living by digging graves
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    jack    laborer    labourer    manual laborer   
    Cross Reference
    sexton   
    Variant
    bury   
    Same Context
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