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noun

Undertaker n.

One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.

One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor. "To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter." "In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders."

Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Undertaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... coroner, and when he arrived, about an hour later, they all went into a huddle and decided that it was an obvious accident and that no inquest would be necessary. Then somebody, I'm not sure who, called an undertaker. It was past eleven when he arrived, and for once, Nelda got home early. She was just coming in while they were carrying Lane out in a basket. You can imagine how horrible that was for her; it was days before she was over the shock. So she'll be just as glad ...

— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... must have his joke. He is a professional lawyer, and I have frequently observed that lawyers' jokes are like an undertaker's griefs—strictly professional. You begin now to sympathize with everybody that ever went to sea. You think of the Pilgrim Fathers during the tempestuous voyage in the Mayflower. You reflect how fully their throats must have been occupied, and you can see how they originated the ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

... until he had possessed Northwick of his whole autobiography. He was in high content with himself, and his joy overflowed in all manner of affectionate services to Northwick, which Northwick accepted as the mourner entrusts his helplessness to the ghastly kindness of the undertaker, and finds in it a sort of human sympathy. If Northwick had been his own father, Pinney could not have looked after him with tenderer care, in putting his things together for him, and getting on board the boat, and making interest with the clerk for the best stateroom. He did not ...

— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells

... seen many a fellow come in just like you. I 've been here thirty year. They call me Old Undertaker Chastine!" ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... hours of the great were not in the way of friendly sympathy, or unfriendly intrusion, here. The back door stood wide open, and people came and went, while the children's sobs mingled with the curt, outspoken directions of the undertaker and the clatter of dishes, which some obliging neighbor was washing at the kitchen sink. The body of the murdered man lay on the bed in a small room off the little sitting-room—an apartment so tiny that the door had to be left open, so that the implements of this last service to his body ...

— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

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