hangman
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Origin of hangman
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at hang, man
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Even the widely despised Chun escaped the hangman.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
Organizers tried getting students who might feel bashful online to at least try a game of hangman or charades.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2021
A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman has sold at auction for £20,000.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2019
The show that brands itself as “America’s game,” and perhaps that is fitting because, in essence, it is an awkward marriage of hangman and roulette.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2019
His sensitive eyes gazed gravely at the surrounding faces, swerved up to the shadowy hangman, then downward to his own manacled hands.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
In his bathroom brooding raptors hooded like hangmen shifted sullenly upon their perches.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
“We groan beneath the yoke of hangmen / While drunken justice sodden sleeps,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Even though they are rarely called on to carry out an execution, hangmen are paid a monthly stipend by local state governments of about 3,000 rupees or £30.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2014
Although there have been no hangings since 1976 two hangmen were recently recruited but were later reported to have been sacked after absconding.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2013
I see robbers, hangmen, freebooters, tapsters, ostlers, and such like, of the very rubbish of the people, more learned now than the doctors and preachers were in my time.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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