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From burke + -er.
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," […]
