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Word Meanings - DEATHSMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DEATHSMAN)

  • EXECUTIONER
    1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
  • HANGMAN
    One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.
  • HANGMANSHIP
    The office or character of a hangman.
  • HEADSMAN
    An executioner who cuts off heads. Dryden.
  • UNDERHANGMAN
    An assistant or deputy hangman. Shak.

 

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