sexton

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sexton englanniksi

1. Sexton

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

2. (RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)

3. (quote-book)|passage=We stopped in the road and watched the sexton shovelling in the new earth. A peasant with a black beard and high leather boots stood beside the grave. The sexton stopped shovelling and straightened his back. The peasant in the high boots took the spade from the sexton and went on filling in the grave

4. A beetle.

5. (cln) sixteen