Word Meanings - DEATHSMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.

Related words: (words related to DEATHSMAN)

• EXECUTIONER
  1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
• HANGMAN
  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.
• HANGMANSHIP
  The office or character of a hangman.
• HEADSMAN
  An executioner who cuts off heads. Dryden.
• UNDERHANGMAN
  An assistant or deputy hangman. Shak.