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(noun) - (1) An undertaker, one who furnishes the necessary articles for funerals. Carrion hunter, an undertaker, called also a cold cook.
--Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796
(2) One who furnishes a newspaper with reports of deaths; a vendor of dying speeches or confessions.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897
January 17, 2018