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hangman

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hang·man  (hngmn)
n.
1. A man employed to execute condemned prisoners by hanging.
2. also (-mn) A game in which one player chooses a word whose letters are guessed at by another player. For each wrong guess, a new part of the stick figure of a hanging man is drawn.
hangman [ˈhæŋmən]
n pl -men
(Law) an official who carries out a sentence of hanging on condemned criminals
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hangmanhangman - an executioner who hangs the condemned person
executioner, public executioner - an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
Translations
hangman [ˈhæŋmən] N (hangmen (pl)) → verdugo m
hangman [ˈhæŋmən] n
(= executioner) → bourreau m
(= game) → pendu m
hangman [ˈhæŋmən] n (-men (pl)) → boia m inv
hangman [ˈhæŋmən] n (-men (pl)) → boia m inv


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The hangman did as he was bid, and was tying the cord firmly, when he was stopped by the voice of the Jewish doctor beseeching him to pause, for he had something very important to say.
The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context
In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
At the second note the hangman let his prisoner go, and danced also, and by the time he had played the first bar of the tune, all were dancing together--judge, court, and miser, and all the people who had followed to look on.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
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