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
Aideen	AY-deen	Irish
Everard	-	English (Rare)
Behar	-	Albanian
Dunham	['dʌhəm]
Iseut	-	Medieval English
Chita	CHEE-tah	Spanish