Meanings (ES + gloss)
sacristán
A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.
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…
on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell
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