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Definition of Headsman
1. Noun. An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
Definition of Headsman
1. n. An executioner who cuts off heads.
Definition of Headsman
1. Noun. An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Headsman
1. an executioner [n HEADSMEN] - See also: executioner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headsman
Literary usage of Headsman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Short Plays by Representative Authors by Alice Mary Smith (1921)
"headsman. Well, if she isn't here, where is she ? BOY {relieved]. I don't know
where she is if she isn't here, sir. headsman. She has too much sense to hide ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"560 Had fortune my last hope betrayed, This packet, to the king conveyed, Had
given him to the headsman's stroke, Now, men of death, work forth your will, ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"Now, Gilbert," Annie answered, " wicked headsman, just beware— If you appear with
that, you may depend you'll rue the day." But Gilbert said: "Oh, shall I? ..."
4. The Life, Travels and Adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the by Lambert A. Wilmer (1858)
"headsman snatched it up by the hair—the mouth still gasping, and the blood dripping
from the severed veins and arteries—and presenting it to the view of ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"THE headsman'. A TALE OF DOOM. On a dark and gusty evening in November 178-,
three students at a university in Northern Germany were sitting with Professor ..."
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