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An executioner; a person who kills another brutally but lawfully.
“Great Hector’s deaths-man.”
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Heywood: Iron Age.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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