An official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant.

synonym: public executioner.

Roget 165: destroyer etc. (destroy) etc. 162; cankerworm etc. (bane) 663; assassin etc. (killer) 361; executioner etc. (punish) 975; biblioclast^†, eidoloclast^†, iconoclast, idoloclast^†; nihilist.    ... show more

Roget 361: killing etc. v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation^†, iccusion^†; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue^†.    massacre; fusillade, noyade^†; thuggery, Thuggism^†.    deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution etc. (capital punishment) 972; judicial murder; martyrdom.    butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur^†; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner etc. (punishment) 975; man-eater, apache^†, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.].    regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide^†, uxoricide^†, vaticide^†.    suicide, felo de se^†, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath^†; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust.    suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging etc. v.; lapidation^†.    deadly weapon etc. (arms) 727; Aceldama^†.    [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthisozoics^†; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir.    fatal accident, violent death, casualty.    ... show more

Roget 975: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan^†, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote^†, blacksnake^†, bullwhack [U.S.], chicote^†, kurbash^†, quirt, rawhide, sjambok^†; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon.    whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end.    pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool^†, ducking stool; brank^†; trebuchet^†, trebuket^†.    [instruments of torture: list], triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture.    treadmill, crank, galleys.    scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate^†.    house of correction etc. (prison) 752.    goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner^†; lyncher; hangman; headsman^†; Jack Ketch.    ... show more

Dutch: beul, scherprechter
Polish: kat