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/ˈəndərtˌeɪkər/ Listen

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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"Undertaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... dead of the fidgets. Stay and cheer me up, there's a good feller. I'd just about reached the stage where I had the girl and boy stove to flinders under that pesky auto. I'd even begun to figger on notifyin' the undertaker. Tell me I'm an old fool and then talk about somethin' else. They'll be ...

— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln

... your head in nights. Long's Sol was alive and could do his cobblin' we managed to get along somehow. What I could earn sewin' helped, and we lived simple. But when he was taken down and died, the doctor's bills and the undertaker's used up what little money I had put by, and the sewin' alone wouldn't keep a healthy canary in bird seed. Dear land knows I hate to leave the old house I've lived in for fourteen years and the town I was born in, but I've got to, for all I see. Thank mercy, I can pay Cap'n Elkanah his last ...

— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

... 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

... address, and displayed a set of teeth that rivalled crimped skate in their whiteness—a month afterwards they became man and wife. For some years they toiled on together—he, like a caterpillar, getting a living out of cabbages, and she, like an undertaker, out of departed soles! Latterly, however, Jack discovered that his spouse was rather addicted to 'summut short,' in fact, that she drank like a fish, although the beverage she affected was a leetle stronger than water. Their ...

— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour

... she said, 'and told him I didn't see how he was going to do any good to the pour soul over a telephone wire.' 'It isn't that,' he said, 'but I might have put them on to Peter Fratch for the funeral. We've never had an undertaker in the church before,' he said; 'he's just come, and he ought to be supported. Now I expect it's too late, they'll have gone to Liscombe.' He rang them up right away, ...

— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan

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