GRAVEDIGGER


Meaning of GRAVEDIGGER in English

noun

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Also patron of amputees, basketweavers, gravediggers, and hermits; he is invoked against eczema.

Hard-pressed gravediggers are burying as many as 100 people a day.

Some cats outlasted him and I became their gravedigger - a new role thrust on me.

The gravedigger was hurling earth into the pit.

The width had been correctly judged on this occasion; but the gravediggers had skimped on the length.

They had heard ominous sounds of the gravedigger just after half-time when they led 9-3.

Women, it was traditionally said, were the gravediggers of dynasties.

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