A gravedigger is a cemetery worker responsible for digging a grave prior to a funeral service. If the grave is in a cemetery on the property of a church or other religious organization (part of, or called, a churchyard), gravediggers may be members of the decedent`s family or volunteer parishioners. Digging graves has also been one of the traditi.... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravedigger
Grave'dig`ger noun 1. A digger of graves. 2. (Zoology) See Burying beetle , under Bury , transitive verb Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/G/53