Useful english dictionary. 2012.
hangman's halter — noun a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging • Syn: ↑hangman s rope, ↑halter, ↑hemp, ↑hempen necktie • Derivationally related forms: ↑halter (for: ↑halter) … Useful english dictionary
hangman's rope — noun a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging • Syn: ↑hangman s halter, ↑halter, ↑hemp, ↑hempen necktie • Derivationally related forms: ↑halter (for: ↑halter) … Useful english dictionary
running noose — noun a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled • Syn: ↑noose, ↑slip noose • Derivationally related forms: ↑noose (for: ↑noose) • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
slip noose — noun a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled • Syn: ↑noose, ↑running noose • Derivationally related forms: ↑noose (for: ↑noose) • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
ax — Synonyms and related words: amputate, battle ax, beheading, bisect, blade, block, boot out, bounce, burning, butcher, can, capital punishment, carve, cashier, cashiering, chop, cleave, cold steel, conge, cross, crucifixion, cut, cut away, cut in… … Moby Thesaurus
chair — Synonyms and related words: Eames chair, Hitchcock chair, TV chair, administer, administrate, anoint, armchair, armless chair, authority, ax, back seat, banquette, bar stool, barber chair, barrel chair, basket chair, batwing chair, be master, bed … Moby Thesaurus
execution — Synonyms and related words: accomplished fact, accomplishment, accordance, achievement, acquittal, acquittance, action, adherence, administration, agency, angary, annexation, annexure, approach, art, assassination, attachment, attainment, ax,… … Moby Thesaurus
gallows — Synonyms and related words: ax, beheading, block, burning, capital punishment, cross, crucifixion, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, drop, electric chair, electrocution, execution, fusillade, gallows tree,… … Moby Thesaurus
gas chamber — Synonyms and related words: Belsen, abattoir, aceldama, ax, beheading, block, burning, butchery, capital punishment, concentration camp, cross, crucifixion, death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, drop, electric… … Moby Thesaurus
guillotine — Synonyms and related words: ax, behead, beheading, block, bowstring, burn, burning, capital punishment, cloture, cloture by compartment, cross, crucifixion, crucify, death chair, death chamber, decapitate, decapitation, decollate, decollation,… … Moby Thesaurus
