Headsman

ahd-5
  • noun. An executioner, especially one who executes by beheading.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A chief person; a head man.
  • noun. One who cuts off the heads of condemned persons; a public executioner.
  • noun. A laborer in a colliery who conveys the coal from the workings to the horseway.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An executioner who cuts off heads.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an executioner who beheads the condemned person
    • Word Usage
    "The coward and the tyrant call the headsman at any provocation, and fall to him the same, Inaglione had written."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    executioner  public executioner  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    battle-plain  brainstormer  chain gang  cupper  executioner  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chief  executioner  
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.