Usually means: Historical British executioner or hangman.
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  1. Jack Ketch: Merriam-Webster
  2. Jack Ketch: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jack ketch: Wordnik
  4. Jack Ketch: Wiktionary
  5. jack ketch: Dictionary.com
  6. Jack Ketch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Jack Ketch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Jack Ketch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. Jack Ketch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. jack ketch: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Jack Ketch, Ketch, Jack: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Jack Ketch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Jack Ketch: Dictionary.com
  14. Jack Ketch: Merriam-Webster

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  1. Jack Ketch, Jack Ketch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ noun:  a public executioner
▸ noun:  the gallows
▸ noun:  death
▸ noun:  the devil

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headsman, hatchet man, electrocutioner, cutthroat, gibbet, death, executee, auto da fe, executioning, dead-eye Dick, more...

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headsman, hatchet man, electrocutioner, cutthroat, gibbet, death, executee, auto da fe, executioning, dead-eye Dick, more...



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