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Ketch
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ketch
English
Noun
en Jack Ketch a public executioner.
en 1882 Thomas Hood The Works of Thomas Hood, Comic and Serious 288 Hanging was indeed the popular remedy for all criminal disorders. The legislator found patients for it, the judge prescribed it, and the Ketch administered it with the same callous and gallows indifference.
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