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Public executioner   /pˈəblɪk ˌɛksəkjˈuʃənər/   Listen
Public executioner

noun
1.
An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant.  Synonym: executioner.





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"Public executioner" Quotes from Famous Books



... and use of animal life, will run the gamut, from the biggest elephant, employed as a public executioner in India, to the invisible microbe, doing a work ten thousand times more ...
— Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers • Arthur Brisbane
... handed over to four of the assistants to the Public Executioner. They stripped me of my outer garments, leaving me naked except for my tunic. Then they haled me to the trap-door, lifted the trap, passed ropes under my armpits and lowered me into the dreaded lower ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White


Words linked to "Public executioner" :   executioner, slayer, headsman, headman, hangman, killer, electrocutioner


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