WordNet
n. a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging [syn: hangman's halter, halter, hemp, hempen necktie]
Usage examples of "hangman's rope".
General Hanfgeist saw Adolf Hitler, his face blackened, his eyes and tongue bulging out, his neck broken, spinning at the end of a hangman's rope.
He scratched at a mosquito bite on his neck, revealing the old dark scar where the hangman's rope had burned and abraded his skin.
When Moses Gama dies at the end of the hangman's rope, he will become the most significant martyr in the history of the black African struggle for liberation.
In truth, the fellow would joke and sing apparently until the hangman's rope smothered all laughter in his throat.
Brother Francis didn't think of the burlap hood and the hangman's rope.
Because of the hangman's rope over one shoulder, the saint's expression often seemed puzzling.
And after that, it would be the hangman's rope, and lying half strangled on the gallows platform while thOslit his belly and ripped out his bowels.