hangman
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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
The show that brands itself as “America’s game,” and perhaps that is fitting because, in essence, it is an awkward marriage of hangman and roulette.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2019
For the sailor and the hangman, it had been indispensable in the past, the narrator declared.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2018
She knew she sounded like Mom when they used to get in trouble for playing hangman during church.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Two other hangmen hired in 2013 failed to show up for work.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2015
Both men were publicans as well as hangmen, but had very different personalities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014
The pay is not very good for hangmen, partly because of the paucity of hangings but also because the job is considered contract work.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
Luther says that kings are only God's gaolers and hangmen, high-born and splendid because the meanest of God's servants must be thus accoutred.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
