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hangman

noun as in garroter

Strong match

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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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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hangman, such as: executioner, lyncher, and public executioner.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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