snatcher : Idioms & Phrases
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Body snatcher
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noun someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
graverobber; ghoul.
WordNet
- one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist.
Webster 1913
Toad snatcher
(Zoöl.) , the reed bunting. Prov. Eng.