HANGMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hangman mean? 

• HANGMAN (noun)
  The noun HANGMAN has 1 sense:

1. an executioner who hangs the condemned person

  Familiarity information: HANGMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANGMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An executioner who hangs the condemned person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hangman" is a kind of...):

executioner; public executioner (an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant)

 Context examples 

Between friends, there is overmuch of the hangman in him, and too little of the prince.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Joe Berks,” said Jackson, “I’d save the hangman the job of breaking your neck if His Royal Highness wasn’t in the room.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer but the hangman who would gain his fee?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At the second note the hangman let his prisoner go, and danced also, and by the time he had played the first bar of the tune, all were dancing together—judge, court, and miser, and all the people who had followed to look on.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“To the hangman,” I returned.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“If you dare open that swine's mouth against me,” shouted the woodman, “I'll crop your ears for you before the hangman has the doing of it, thou long-jawed lackbrain.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)