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Date "BODY-SNATCHER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Body-snatcher (A). One who snatches or purloins bodies, newly buried, to sell them to surgeons for dissection. By a play on the words, a bum-bailiff was so called, because his duty was to snatch or capture the body of a delinquent. The first instance of body-snatching on record was in 1777. It was the body of Mrs. Jane Sainsbury from the burial ground near Gray's Inn Lane. The men, being convicted, were imprisoned for six months. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Edinburgh medical students examine the skeleton of a notorious nineteenth century murderer and body-snatcher, William Burke. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by R. Haswell.. |
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| Language | Translations for "BODY-SNATCHER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | roosteyr ruillickey. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ody-snatcherbay người bắn giỏi (sharp-shooter). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-h-n-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: corybantes. | |
-3 letters: absconder, adsorbent, anchorets, baronetcy, barytones, boneyards, bystander, chordates, corybants, secondary. | |
-4 letters: abhenrys, ancestor, ancestry, anchored, anchoret, aroynted, bandores, baronets, bartends, barytone, batchers, bayonets, bethorns, bodhrans, boneyard, botchers, botchery, brachets, branched, branches, breadths, brechans, broached, broaches, broadens, broadest, brocades, cabestro, caboshed, cabresto, carboyed, cartoned, cathodes, chanters, chanteys, chantors, chayotes, chordate, corybant, crayoned. | |
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