burker

English

Etymology

burke +‎ -er

Noun

burker (plural burkers)

  1. (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," […]
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