potter's field

A place where the indigent or the unknown are buried. A reference to the Bible, "So they conferred together and bought the potter's field with it as a burial place for foreigners" (Matthew 27:7). Primarily heard in US. The work was so grueling that a great number of immigrant laborers who built the railroads across this country ended up in some potter's field or another before the job was complete.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Peregrinus	-	Late Roman
Anita	[ə'ni:tə]
Laxmi	-	Indian, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Nepali
Humphrey	['hʌmfri]
Aucaman	aw-oo-kaw-MAWN	Native American, Mapuche
Nasim	nah-SEEM (Arabic)	Arabic, Urdu