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| sexton [ sékstən ] (plural sextons) |
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1. church caretaker: the caretaker of a church and its graveyard whose duties often include ringing the bell and digging graves
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2. beetle that eats dead animals: a beetle that buries the bodies of dead small animals such as mice by digging beneath them, using the bodies as food for itself and its larvae. Genus Necrophorus.
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| [14th century. Via Anglo-Norman segerstein< medieval Latin sacristanus (see sacristan)] |
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