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Hangman's rope   /hˈæŋmənz roʊp/   Listen
Hangman's rope

noun
1.
A rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging.  Synonyms: halter, hangman's halter, hemp, hempen necktie.






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"Hangman's rope" Quotes from Famous Books



... His disciples: but all that is blotted out by the crowning shame of the cross. We hang our worst criminals rather than behead or shoot them, in order to heap up the utmost possible shame and disgrace upon them, as well as to execute justice upon them. And what the hangman's rope is in our day, all that the cross was in our Lord's day. And, then, as if the cross itself was not shame enough, all the circumstances connected with His cross were planned and carried out so as to heap the utmost possible shame and humiliation ...
— Bunyan Characters - First Series • Alexander Whyte



Words linked to "Hangman's rope" :   slip noose, halter, running noose, gallows, rope, noose



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