An executioner, a hangman.

A man whose office it is to hang condemned persons; also more generally, an executioner, a torturer, racker. common hangman, the public executioner.

One who puts a person to death by hanging, or causes him to be hanged.

Scottish. A public executioner; a hangman. Cf. locksman, n.1 Now historical.

A hangman, an executioner.

An executioner, hangman, or torturer. Chiefly figurative.

= burrio, n.

A hangman; hanging; the gallows. (Cf. Jack Ketch, n.)

a person who makes or sells ‘passports’ to the next world; (humorous) a person who puts others to death; see sense 6c.

A hangman: = topsman, n. 2. slang. Obsolete.

a hangman; = sense 1.

A hangman or executioner. Also employed as a term of abuse.

a hangman.

A hangman. Obsolete. (Cf. Gregorian, adj. 4)

A public executioner; = lockman, n.1 1a.

(A generic name for) an executioner or hangman. Also Master Ketch, Mr. Ketch. Cf. Jack Ketch, n.

(A generic name for) an executioner or hangman. Cf. Ketch, n.2

spec. finisher of the law: jocularly, the hangman, executioner.

slang. A hangman. Cf. top, v.1 6, headsman, n. 2.

the hangman.

the hangman.