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the only profession that profits when business is dead and buries the evidence.
means A person whose job is to dig the graves in which the dead are buried.
from A plain compound of two old workhorse words: "grave," from Old English græf (a trench, ditch, or burial pit, related to the verb grafan, "to dig"), and "digger," the one who does the digging. The same græf root quietly underlies "engrave" and "groove" — all of them about cutting into a surface. So a gravedigger is, almost tautologically, "one who digs the dig": the language doubled down on the shovel.
- old name
- once called a sexton, also rang church bells
- hamlet cameo
- Shakespeare's gravediggers crack jokes mid-burial
- depth rule
- six feet started as plague-era law
- hidden skill
- reads soil and water tables like a geologist
gravedigger monster truck — dennis anderson's legendary 10,000-hp truck that won 144 monster jam competitions since 1982
yorick's gravedigger — the unnamed gravedigger who unearths yorick's skull in hamlet, act v, scene 1