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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hangman
noun
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▪ After his victim had been turned off the ladder, probably by the assistant hangman, Schlegel remained astride the cross-beam.
▪ And waiting for the call: The last hangman says bring back the rope.
▪ Brunskill's thirty-eight years of executions were by now telling on him, a strain suffered eventually by most hangmen.
▪ Syd Dernley was a public hangman before the capital punishment was abolished in nineteen sixty-five.
▪ That's what's expected tonight at the Oxford Union, when former hangman, Syd Dernley speaks in favour of capital punishment.
▪ The hangman then twisted the ladder away, turning off the victim.
▪ The huge old canvas sack on a chain looked like a real-life victim of a game of hangman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hangman

Hangman \Hang"man\ (h[a^]ng"man), n.; pl. Hangmen (-men). 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hangman

public executioner, mid-14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), from hang (v.) + man (n.). As the name of a spelling game, by 1951. Hangestere "female executioner" is found mid-15c.

Wiktionary
hangman

n. 1 (context countable English) An executioner responsible for hanging criminals. 2 (context uncountable games English) A guessing game where one has to guess the word an opponent is thinking of by guessing one letter at a time, and involving the gradual drawing of a stick figure hanging from the gallows.

WordNet
hangman

n. an executioner who hangs the condemned person

Wikipedia
Hangman (game)

Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word, phrase or sentence and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters or numbers, within a certain number of guesses.

Hangman (DC Comics)

The Hangman is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was an enemy of Batman featured in Batman: Dark Victory. Hangman was created by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb in May, 1997.

Hangman (comics)

Hangman, in comics, may refer to:

  • Hangman (DC Comics), an enemy of Batman
  • Hangman (Marvel Comics), the name of a couple of different characters in the Marvel Universe
  • Hangman (Archie Comics), a number of Archie Comics superheroes
  • Hangman Comics, an MLJ/Archie Comics imprint comics title featuring Hangman

It may also refer to:

  • Hangmen (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain team
Hangman

Hangman may refer to:

Hangman (Marvel Comics)

Hangman is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Hangman (Archie Comics)

The Hangman is the name of several fictional superheroes that appear in periodicals published by MLJ Comics and later Dark Circle Comics.

Hangman (2015 film)

Hangman is a 2015 British thriller film, directed by Adam Mason, and co-written by Mason and Simon Boyes. The film stars Jeremy Sisto, Kate Ashfield, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins, Eric Michael Cole, and Amy Smart. The film had its world premiere at SXSW on 14 March 2015. The film was released on video on demand and home media formats on 9 February 2016 by Alchemy.

Usage examples of "hangman".

He turned through the pages of doodling and games of hangman, his pride at being made co-captain of his hockey team, his sadness at the trouble between his parents.

One Sunday Malania came home from church in her new dress and her new boots, and announced to her mistress that the gallows were being erected, and that the hangman was expected from Moscow on Wednesday.

Everything is so like the puppet theatre: now Nardo will lift up his head and the hangman will deliver a hail of blows.

Set me at liberty at once, or tell your hangmen to finish their work, for I warn you that no one shall take me to the galleys alive.

In reality, outside official executions, where the hangman has the advantage of training or practice, the neck rarely breaks.

Still later, it will be the king, until civilization invents the hired hangman.

Yet how long would authority and private property exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

Compulsory Marriage I myself once proposed an alternative scheme, to wit, the prohibition of sentimental marriages by law, and the substitution of match-making by the common hangman.

It was only a cowardly love of life that hindered me from running my sword through the body of the Statthalter, who had treated me as if he were a hangman and not a judge.

An edict was published and affixed to the doors of all the churches, in which it was declared that breeches with braguettes were only to be worn by the public hangmen.

IV--LARGO E MESTO Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellarage of hell, The Wind-Fiend, the abominable - The Hangman Wind that tortures temper and light - Comes slouching, sullen and obscene, Hard on the skirts of the embittered night.

About a week later I heard a great noise in the street, and on putting my head out of the window I saw a woman stripped to the waist, and mounted on an ass, being scourged by the hangman, and hooted by a mob of all the biricchini in Bologna.

Fortunately for us, before the hangman could get to him, he died of a bloody flux.

How ironic to cheat the hangman only to die of influenza or something!

But there's a lot of us aboard, your highness, people who spent their last sparkler to cheat the hangman one more time.