- an official of a church charged with taking care of the edifice and its contents, ringing the bell, etc., and sometimes with burying the dead.
- an official who maintains a synagogue and its religious articles, chants the designated portion of the Torah on prescribed days, and assists the cantor in conducting services on festivals.
- U.S. poet.
- a person employed to act as caretaker of a church and its contents and graveyard, and often also as bell-ringer, gravedigger, etc
- another name for the burying beetle
