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A person who illegally exhumes bodies in order to sell them to anatomists; a bodysnatcher. Cf. resurrection man n. at resurrection, n. compounds…
a woman who illegally procures corpses in order to sell them to anatomists; cf. resurrection man n.
a hackney coachman who also works as a resurrection man (in quot. 1825 humorously of a night coachman).