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sexton🔊

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

📑 Synonyms: sacristan
💬 Quotations
on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell

A sexton beetle.

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