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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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Etymology of 'Undertaker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Undertaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... far sooner be ornamental—and starve. Where a man can have the choice of a thousand girls who can't even stitch a button on a pillow-case, the feminine expert in domestic economy will go on economising all by herself, until the only man who takes any real interest in her is the undertaker! It is all very strange, and very unaccountable. But I suppose it will forever continue thuswise until the world ceases to lay its laurels at the foot of Mary and to give Martha the ...

— Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King

... population struggling against hunger. The air quivers, the gutters smoke, the buildings tremble as the heavy drays pass and collide at the corners of the narrow streets. Suddenly the marquis stops; he has found what he wanted. Between a charcoal dealer's dark shop and an undertaker's establishment, where the spruce boards leaning against the wall cause him to shudder, is a porte-cochere surmounted by a sign, the word "BATHS" on a dull lantern. He enters and crosses a damp little garden where a fountain ...

— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

... there is movement and bustle down stairs, they are bringing in the body of the murdered man. The undertaker goes about his work with pompous air, and solemn visage; and when darkness falls, John Burrill's lifeless form lies in state in the drawing room of Mapleton, that room over the splendors of which his plebeian soul has gloated, his covetous eyes ...

— The Diamond Coterie • Lawrence L. Lynch

... called "Little" Thompson, who was high and narrow in build—shaped something like a lath, with a face something like an undertaker's—sang at length. First a doleful ditty that went ...

— Injun and Whitey to the Rescue • William S. Hart

... of every one of the class we are discussing to live fashionably, so it is their chief wish to be laid in the grave in the same style. The undertaker at a fashionable funeral is generally the sexton of some fashionable church, perhaps of the church the deceased was in the habit of attending. This individual prescribes the manner in which the funeral ceremonies shall be conducted, and advises certain styles of mourning for ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

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