gravekeeper

noun

gravekeeper

noun

Etymology From grave + keeper.

1

A graveyard attendant.

  • This cemetery had a gravekeeper who kept the graves from getting muddled together with weeds and brambles.1942, Emily Carr, “Cemetery”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

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