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gravedigger

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grave·dig·ger  (grvdgr)
n.
One that digs graves.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.gravediggergravedigger - a person who earns a living by digging graves
laborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
Translations
gravedigger [ˈgreɪvˌdɪgəʳ] N → sepulturero/a m/f
gravedigger [ˈgreɪvdɪgər] n → fossoyeur m
gravedigger [ˈgreɪvˌdɪgəʳ] n → becchino, affossatore m
gravedigger [ˈgreɪvˌdɪgəʳ] n → becchino, affossatore m


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Wopsle in a comprehensive black cloak, being descried entering at the turnpike, the gravedigger was admonished in a friendly way, "Look out
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
- I began now to think my cave or vault finished, when on a sudden (it seems I had made it too large) a great quantity of earth fell down from the top on one side; so much that, in short, it frighted me, and not without reason, too, for if I had been under it, I had never wanted a gravedigger.
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context
Ah, Barbara, darling, I can see that you want me to be taken away to the Volkovo Cemetery in a broken-down old hearse, with some poor outcast of the streets to accompany my coffin as chief mourner, and the gravediggers to heap my body with clay, and depart and leave me there.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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