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hangman's knot
noun
a slip noose for hanging a person, usually having eight or nine turns around the rope.
Example Sentences
A third posted a manual on how to tie a hangmanās knot.
Best extras: Viewers get five optional commentary tracks from historians and critics for the films āThe Desperados,ā āThe Tall T,ā āBuchanan Rides Alone,ā āHangmanās Knotā and āThe Stranger Wore a Gunā and an 11-minute brief overview of Scottās work at Columbia.
Jody Williams knew things had gotten out of hand early last month, when a post on the pro-Trump message board TheDonald included a detailed diagram of how to tie a āhangmanās knotā on a noose.
But instead of a scarf, a hangmanās knot was on the womanās lap, an image that critics said was highly offensive and evoked the lynchings of black people in the Deep South.
The image Leach tweeted depicted an elderly woman knitting, with the caption: āAfter 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarfā¦ā, but the picture showed her knitting a noose with the hangmanās knot already tied.
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