3. (old).—A body-stealer; a resurrectionist.

1830. S. Warren, Diary of a Late Physician, ch. xvi. Sir ——’s

dressers and myself, with an experienced grab—that is to say, a

professional resurrectionist—were to set off from the Borough.

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