A person or creature that buries something, especially a person whose job is digging graves or burying the dead.
From Middle English 'burial' or 'bury' plus the agent suffix '-er', which turns verbs into nouns meaning 'one who does the action.' This is one of English's most productive word-formation patterns.
Historically, grave-diggers and official 'buriers' were essential members of urban communities, especially during plague years when the death rate overwhelmed normal burial practices—they were sometimes among the few people left standing.
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