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headsman

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heads·man  (hdzmn)
n.
A public executioner who beheads condemned prisoners.
headsman [ˈhɛdzmən]
n pl -men
(Historical Terms) (formerly) an executioner who beheaded condemned persons
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Noun1.headsmanheadsman - an executioner who beheads the condemned person
headman
executioner, public executioner - an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
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headsman (o.f.) [ˈhedzmən] N (headsmen (pl)) → verdugo m


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de Thou, and other slovenly executed people, that the headsman might inflict more than one stroke, that is to say, more than one martyrdom, on the poor tulip-fancier.
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
1830; The Bravo, 1831; The Heidenmauer, or the Benedictines, 1832; The Headsman, 1833; A Letter to his Countrymen, 1834; The Monikins, 1835; Sketches of Switzerland, 1836; Gleanings in Europe: 1837; (England)
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated; oftener the boat's bow is knocked off, or the thigh-board, in which the headsman stands, is torn from its place and accompanies the body.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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