Seton vs Sexton - What's the difference?

seton | sexton |


As a noun seton

is seton.

As a proper noun sexton is

.

Other Comparisons: What's the difference?

seton

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine, agriculture) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Gustave Flaubert, title=Over Strand and Field, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The animal was lean and tall, and had a moth-eaten mane, rough hoofs and loose shoes; a seton bobbed up and down on its breast. }}

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    sexton

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell-ringer.

    • Synonyms

    * sacristan