noun.
A man employed to execute condemned prisoners by hanging.
noun.
A game in which one player chooses a word whose letters are guessed at by another player. For each wrong guess, a new part of the stick figure of a hanging man is drawn.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
One who hangs another; a public executioner: sometimes used merely as a term of reproach.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
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.
noun.
An executioner responsible for hanging criminals.
noun.
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.
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noun.
an executioner who hangs the condemned person
Word Usage
"Then the Grand Wazir called the hangman and bade him strip Hasib and beat him a sore beating; and so they did till he saw death face to face, for excess of pain, and the Wazir said,"