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Definition of Gravedigger
1. Noun. A person who earns a living by digging graves.
Definition of Gravedigger
1. n. A digger of graves.
Definition of Gravedigger
1. Noun. A person employed to dig graves. ¹
2. Noun. A necrophore, or burying beetle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Gravedigger
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1. A digger of graves.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravedigger
Literary usage of Gravedigger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"... who obsessed him during his Roman illness, the visions of S. Angelo when his
leg was broken, and the apparition of the gravedigger during his short ..."
2. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"THE gravedigger Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old, And well his work is done.
With an equal grave for lord and knave, He buries them every one. ..."
3. Northern Mythology: Comprising the Principal Popular Traditions and by Benjamin Thorpe (1852)
"It was on All-Saints' day, and the gravedigger was ill with a fever, ...
The gravedigger gladly accepted it. The gossip having provided himself with a spade ..."
4. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"THE gravedigger Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old, And well his work is done.
With an equal grave for lord and knave, He buries them every one. ..."
5. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"THE gravedigger OH, the shambling sea is a sexton old, And well his work is done.
With an equal grave for lord and knave, He buries them every one. ..."
6. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1873)
"... at the Gernsbacher Thor, with a statue of a gravedigger in red sandstone on
a lofty pedestal, contains several well-known names. ..."
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