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Jack ketch

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a public executioner
  2. 2
    the gallows
  3. 3
    death
  4. 4
    the devil

Etymology

From Jack Ketch, the public executioner during the reigns of both Charles II of England and his brother James II.

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