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

hangman \hang"man\ ha^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
see also:
hangmen 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hangman
     n : an executioner who hangs the condemned person

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

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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