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mort safe
mort safe n. Scottish (now historical) an iron frame placed over a coffin or at the entrance to a grave as a protection against resurrectionists in Scotland.
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1821 A. Thomson Jrnl. 1 Mar. in Life & Ministry (1869) iii. 285 The mort-safe was for the first time put into his grave.
1888 Northern Notes & Queries 3 51 The coffin is then lowered, the cage-like mortsafe put over it, and the hinged rods, the tops of which interlace, bent over and padlocked... The grave is then filled up.
1993 Canoeist Dec. 39/1 St Ninian's Episcopal Church..has the graves of knights templars, several provosts and many freemen with a mort safe to deter body snatchers.
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