Crossword-Solution: DEATHSMAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deathsman | n. | An executioner; a headsman or hangman. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEATHSMAN | anagram | HANDSTEAM |
We have 1 clue for the answer “DEATHSMAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Old-time executioner. | 1 answer |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DEATHSMAN (5)
But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee And I should rob the deathsman of his fee, Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames, And that my sovereign’s presence makes me mild, I would, false murderous coward, on thy knee Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech And say it was thy mother that thou meant’st, That thou thyself wast born in bastardy; And after all this fearful homage done, Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell, Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men! SUFFOLK.
Such wretched hands such wretched blood should spill, For who so base would such an office have As sland’rous deathsman to so base a slave? “The baser is he, coming from a king, To shame his hope with deeds degenerate.
From his arms thou shalt start with horror, as from those of thy wronged father's betrayer,--perchance his deathsman! Ill omen broods on the cradle of the child for whom a mother's ambition was but a daughter's perfidy.
From his arms thou shalt start with horror, as from those of thy wronged father’s betrayer,--perchance his deathsman! Ill omen broods on the cradle of the child for whom a mother’s ambition was but a daughter’s perfidy.
Those who were condemned to be smothered to death by sinking downe into the softe bottome of an high built bedde of roses, neuer dide so sweete a death as I shoulde die, if her rose coloured disdaine were my deathsman.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).