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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hangman \Hang"man\ (h[a^]ng"man), n.; pl. {Hangmen} (-men).
     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. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hangman
       n : an executioner who hangs the condemned person

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  HANGMAN, n.  An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest
  dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a
  populace having a criminal ancestry.  In some of the American States
  his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey,
  where executions by electricity have recently been ordered -- the
  first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the
  expediency of hanging Jerseymen.
  
  

















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