Gravedigger vs. Sexton

Gravediggernoun

A person employed to dig graves.

Sextonnoun

A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.

Gravediggernoun

A necrophore, or burying beetle.

Sextonnoun

A sexton beetle.

Gravediggernoun

A digger of graves.

Sextonnoun

An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.

Gravediggernoun

See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.

Sextonnoun

United States poet (1928-1974)

Gravediggernoun

a person who earns a living by digging graves

Sextonnoun

an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects

Gravedigger

A gravedigger is a cemetery worker who is responsible for digging a grave prior to a funeral service.

Sextonnoun

a person who looks after a church and churchyard, typically acting as bell-ringer and gravedigger.