Noun
One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. Eli Wallach
Say a word to the hangman for me, me and my baby. Tori Amos
She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history. Margaret Atwood
Success to you! God speed the craft! as the hangman said to the judge. German Proverb
A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight. Spanish Proverb
"bad company,” said the thief, as he went to the gallows between the hangman and a monk. Dutch Proverb