† ˌall-ˈnight-man Obs.
[= Man astir all night.]
A former name for body-snatchers, or men who disinterred corpses by night in order to sell them to medical students for dissection.
| 1861 Ramsay Remin. Ser. ii. 133, The body-lifters, or ‘all-night-men,’ as they were wont to be called. |