Blood & Rhetoric

forgotten english word of the day

Writing by Jana on Tuesday, 24 of June , 2008 at 7:24 am

“ketchcraft”

The hangman’s craft.

– Sir James Murray, New English Dictionary, 1901.

After Jack Ketch, an infamous London executioner, who died in 1686, and was apparantly either very awkward or sadistic with his beheading techniques.

Category: Forgotten English Word of the Day

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