gravedigger's
Cemetery laborer's possession
Gravedigger's is the possessive form of gravedigger—one who digs graves for burial.
The possessive typically modifies tools, duties, or attributes of the occupation: the gravedigger's shovel, a gravedigger's wages.
In Shakespeare's *Hamlet*, the gravedigger's scene provides dark comic relief while contemplating mortality.
Tool for moving earth
- spadeFlat-bladed digging implement
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- coffinBurial container for remains
- burialPlacing deceased underground
plot · sexton · undertaker · mortuary · headstone · tomb · interment · pickaxe
Disturbing, death-obsessed
- skullsHead bones
- bonesRigid internal support structure
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- moonlitBathed in lunar glow
eerie · haunted · folklore · mortality · specter · churchyard · raven · mist
Danish prince's revenge tragedy
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- YorickDeceased royal entertainer
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
- clownComedic performer in makeup
philosophical · mortality · jest · wisdom · fool · dialogue · tragicomedy · riddling
shovel
Tool for moving earth
- spadeFlat-bladed digging implement
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- coffinBurial container for remains
burial · plot · sexton · undertaker · mortuary · headstone · tomb · interment · pickaxe · lantern
macabre
Disturbing, death-obsessed
moonlit · eerie · haunted · folklore · mortality · specter · churchyard · raven · mist · corpse
Hamlet
Danish prince's revenge tragedy
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- YorickDeceased royal entertainer
- soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself
clown · philosophical · mortality · jest · wisdom · fool · dialogue · tragicomedy · riddling · wordplay