| 单词 | common hangman |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon hangman a. A man whose office it is to hang condemned persons; also more generally, an executioner, a torturer, racker. common hangman, the public executioner. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman boiec1320 hangman1393 hangerc1430 lockman1488 burrioc1540 bourreauc1550 burriourc1550 derrickc1600 passport-maker1602 topman1607 derrick-jastro?1609 verdugo1616 windpipe-stretcher1617 Gregorya1658 locksman1682 Ketch1685 Jack Ketch1696 finisher of the law1708 topsman1825 scrag-boy1843 scragger1897 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 368 Þe hangeman of tyborne. 1483 Vulgaria abs Terencio (T. Rood & T. Hunte) sig. oij See how froward a face ȝoon hangeman makes. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark vi. f. lij The kynge sent the hangman and commaunded his heed to be brought in. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 328 Since the Hang-man dealt so roughly with him..racking as much from him as there needed no farther confession. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 99 A Paper..avow'd to contain the matter of the Treaty, was Burn'd by the Common Hang-man. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Hangman's wages, thirteen pence halfpenny, which according to vulgar tradition was thus allotted, one shilling for the execution, and three halfpence for the rope. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 175 The Commons began by resolving..that the Covenant should be burned by the hangman in Palace Yard. < as lemmas |
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