hangman's knot
hangman's noose

There was a hangman's knot fixed in the rope, ready for use.

Would it be hard to tie a hangman's knot?

Finally, he attempted suspension with a slipping hangman's knot, but the pain was too great for him to continue.

Around his neck he wears an umbilical cord tied in a hangman's knot.

The cord, old and fuzzy, had been severed just above the eighth turn of a perfect hangman's knot.

George stared at the face, canted to one side, the neck broken, a hangman's knot behind the ear.

Red Bill adjusted the noose, placing the hangman's knot properly under the left ear.

McArdle shared it with two other millionaires, and his place was last of the three, where the road made a hangman's knot.

Eve logged time of death for the recorder and examined the very precise hangman's knot.

I wouldn't think many people would know how to tie a hangman's knot," Jenrette mused. "

The 'Hangman's knot' is a variation of this whipping knot.

There is also an original gallows in the yard with the original hangman's knot on.

Fred could tie a hangman's knot blindfolded, and he tied one now in clothesline.

There was only one proper knot to use, and that was a hangman's knot.

I envisioned the noose with its hangman's knot that had been cut from Max Ferguson's neck.

Deft and boring: he cinched sashes into hangman's knots.

Hangman's Knot - This knot needs no definition.

Not hangman's knot, Nor blade of knife Prevail against This sibyl's life!

In one, Neuman answered a letter from a suicidal reader by giving "expert advice" on the best technique for tying a hangman's knot.

This causes the wraps to tighten and compress, creating two short sections of "barrel", which look much like a hangman's knot, that slide together.

A hangman's knot is morbid, ominous.

We'd untied the rope from the beam above instead of cutting through the hangman's knot, since the knot itself could provide a necessary clue.

James wakes up and finds himself on a very small island with a simple palm tree and an empty barrel and a hangman's knot.

Apparently in a warning to unwanted visitors, the garden featured a gallows with a rope tied in a hangman's knot.

The knot is like a hangman's knot, except the noose is round so it can be drawn with the hands pulling apart.

A hangman's noose was once left in their front yard.

Justice was brutal and often led to the hangman's noose.

I'm not ready to jump on the hangman's noose here.

In other words, civil war killers are just as likely to end up on the hangman's noose.

Shoot me here, and you will face a hangman's noose, lieutenant.

For seventeen years, I woke up with a hangman's noose every morning.

A 19th-century woman is saved from the hangman's noose by a marriage of convenience.

Was his sole option the active one of using the hangman's noose?

The hangman's noose has to be handled just so.

Threatening visitors with the hangman's noose is an unusual form of welcome.

On the other side was a crude drawing of a coffin and a hangman's noose.

And on it he was tying a hangman's noose!

The same heavy cordage was used to fashion the hangman's noose.

A hangman's noose is then placed around his neck, the end of the rope hanging down behind him.

Around his neck hung a hangman's noose which served as a weight to hold the sheet in place.

At least the old collars didn't feel like I was sticking my head through a hangman's noose.

He'd stared at the rope they'd left him, the hangman's noose already formed.

But he must keep away from her or, by God, he would find a hangman's noose around his own neck.

I came in one morning to find a hangman's noose dangling from my pergola.

"He was actually showing another guy from another country how to make a hangman's noose," Green said.

"They were hung from the waist, not with hangman's noose or anything like that.

"I expect that is better than a hangman's noose," Gabriel said calmly.

Sooner or later you will run straight into the hangman's noose anyhow, no worry about that.

Why a hangman's noose versus a simple, safer slip knot?

It showed a young man with the likeness of the evil, a hangman's noose around his neck.