Definition of “hangman”

Both she and the hangman wore the yellow, starched ruffs and cuffs she had made fashionable, a fashion that died with her.

But when he is finally faced with the hangman 's noose he will go out begging for his life.

But when it was his turn to walk the ramp, the hangman never pulled the lever.

Demonstrators in Baghdad held a mock trial and execution of Saddam, hoisting an effigy from a hangman 's noose and setting it on fire.

He had some stories about the people he'd driven: Lady Docker, Mr Pastry, Albert Dell the hangman.

Punch beats his wife to death, kills a baby, a policeman, a hangman and the Devil.

The hangman 's noose may seem a crude mechanism to do so -- but within the realms of Indian jurisprudence it is the only one possible.

There has to be a hangman , of course, but you didn't have to like it.

Tom Banbury considered the act of execution: he knew what happened, had stood behind the hangman.