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Dec 11, 2009
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Deaths-man

An executioner; a person who kills another brutally but lawfully.

“Great Hector's deaths-man.”

Heywood: Iron Age.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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