Hangman [noun]

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.

“I would be both judge and hangman for you, my man, and never turn a hair,” returned the Captain.

The task of butchering the helpless Huguenots in the prison was first proposed to the public hangman.

The public hangman refused to execute the sentence of an unauthorized tribunal.

I have found among them only good citizens and brave soldiers, but not one hangman.

The hangman then went up the ladder to cut him down; but a stone struck him on the nose, and caused it to bleed.