burker
English
Etymology
burke + -er
Noun
burker (plural burkers)
- (UK, slang, historical) One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc.
- 1877, Dutton Cook, Doubleday's Children (page 90)
- Science was in league with the "burkers" and "body-snatchers," […]
- 1877, Dutton Cook, Doubleday's Children (page 90)