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Jack Ketch

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. a public executioner

  2. the gallows

  3. death

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. the devil

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