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sexton

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Definition:
person charged with miscellaneous church duties, such as care of building, ringing the bell, digging graves, etc.

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I got the sexton, who was digging [a person's] grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid,

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Hamlet: Why, e'en so! and now my Lady Worm's, chapless, and knock'd about the mazzard with a sexton's spade.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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On a stool by the window sat the sexton's wife, Raissa Nilovna.

Anton Chekhov. The Witch and other stories
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