English Explanatory Dictionary

Jack Ketch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

a public executioner
the gallows
death
the devil

Word forms

Jack Ketch Jack Ketches

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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