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gravedigger

/greyv-dig-er/US // ˈgreɪvˌdɪg ər //

掘墓人,挖坟人,挖墓人,掘墓者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person whose occupation is digging graves.
    • : burying beetle.

Examples

  • This volume includes the dodge-the-obvious profiles of the attending emergency room physician and gravedigger for the slain JFK.

  • He had spent several years as a gravedigger and gardener at a cemetery in Germany before returning to Puglia.

  • “I never heard that part of the story before,” said Lady Engleton, when the gravedigger had left.

  • The trees waved and bent and murmured, as though they gossiped with each other over this odd gravedigger.

  • The entertainment is followed by a counter-invitation; and the gravedigger is forced to pay a return visit.

  • The best of these, and one of the most popular of the kind, is probably the 'Song of the Gravedigger.'

  • In an old abbey town, a long, long while ago there officiated as sexton and gravedigger in the churchyard one Gabriel Grubb.