Brewer's: Mort-safe

A wrought-iron frame to prevent dead bodies from being exhumed by resurrectionists. (See Notes and Queries, March 14th, 1891, p. 210.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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