Words similar to hangman

Example sentences for: hangman

How can you use “hangman” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Some of these are ... hauntingly familiar growths, like catafalque trees and hangman trees, as Terry Dowling put it.
As a typical example, we read that the word derrick , derived from the surname of a famous hangman, was in use for centuries as a name for the gallows.
47. squeezer--the hangman's noose.
The Guardian carried front-page photographs of some of the instruments of torture found inside the police interrogation center--knuckle-dusters, knives, a hangman's noose, and a chainsaw.
And then there was a hangman's noose--not a drawing, an actual rope noose--hanging over a passageway.