- Undertaker - A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. - An undertaker, or provider for funerals. - An upholsterer. - One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender;
a sustainer.
- Coffin carrier - Cortege escort - cottage escort - One who carries a coffin - Undertaker’s assistant - One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so
called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
- Coffin transportation - Funeral car - Funeral vehicle - Late transport picks up last of entourage - Undertaker’s vehicle - A hind in the year of its age. - A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb
of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy
bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was
placed during the funeral ceremonies.