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sexton

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sexton
1. a person employed to act as caretaker of a church and its contents and graveyard, and often also as bell-ringer, gravedigger, etc.
2. another name for the burying beetle


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The farmer's wife and the sexton sat at the table, but there was no one else.
Directing the sexton to lead the horse, he walked close by the murderer's side, and in this order they reached the village about the middle of the night.
Before long the sexton came by and saw his master, the parson, running behind three girls.
 
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