gravedigger• Also patron of amputees, basketweavers, gravediggers, and hermits; he is invoked against eczema.• Hard-pressed gravediggers are burying as many as 100 people a day.• The width had been correctly judged on this occasion; but the gravediggers had skimped on the length.• They had heard ominous sounds of the gravedigger just after half-time when they led 9-3.• Women, it was traditionally said, were the gravediggers of dynasties.• The gravedigger was hurling earth into the pit.• Some cats outlasted him and I became their gravedigger - a new role thrust on me.