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hangman
noun as in garroter
Strong match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Plus hanging with a specific hangman never stopped and still is used in New Hampshire and Washington State.
Parliament of England ordered the Book of Sports to be burned by the common hangman.
The solemn league and covenant burned by the common hangman at London, and afterwards throughout the country.
But now the hangman smokes, and the criminal condemned to death smokes before being hanged.
How refinedly brutal is this constant care lest the hangman be robbed of his prey!
This day among other stories he told me how despicable a thing it is to be a hangman in Poland, although it be a place of credit.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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