"Jack Ketch" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Jack Ketch, the public executioner during the reigns of both Charles II of England and his brother James II.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Jack Ketches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Jack Ketch (plural Jack Ketches)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a public executioner"
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "the gallows"
      ],
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          "gallows",
          "gallows"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "death"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the devil"
      ],
      "id": "en-Jack_Ketch-en-noun-Br4tYqzE",
      "links": [
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          "devil",
          "devil"
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  "word": "Jack Ketch"
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  "etymology_text": "From Jack Ketch, the public executioner during the reigns of both Charles II of England and his brother James II.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Jack Ketches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Jack Ketch (plural Jack Ketches)",
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a public executioner"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the gallows"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gallows",
          "gallows"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "death"
      ],
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        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the devil"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "devil",
          "devil"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Jack Ketch"
}