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| undertaker | |
| 1. n. A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations |  |
| 2. n. (historical) A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and t | |
| In 1588 Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle. | |
| 3. n. (rare) One who undertakes or commits to doing something. | |
