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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hangman \Hang"man\, n.; pl {Hangmen}(?). 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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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