burker

English

Etymology

From 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," […]