gravedigger
掘墓人,挖坟人,挖墓人,掘墓者
Definitions
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- : 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.