lynch-man
[Cf. lynch law.]
One of the early administrators of lynch law.
| 1811 A. Ellicott in C. V. Mathews A. Ellicott (1908) 221 The Lynch-men associated for the purpose of punishing crimes in a summary way without the tedious and technical forms of our courts of justice. Ibid. 222, I should not have asserted it as a fact had it not been related to me by Mr. Lynch..together with several other Lynch-men as they are called. |