headsman
noun
a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
headsmen
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pluralof headsman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In 1879 the honor fell to one Louis Deibier, heir of a long line of Breton headsmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is one to make of these clowns and fish and blind Oedipuses, caged women and mutilated statues, tarty cigarette girls and Greek headsmen?
From Time Magazine Archive
Stygg was hardly the most expert of headsmen, and Benfred had a neck thick as a boar's, heavy with muscle and fat.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Sobs and murmurs were heard amongst the crowd; the roughest of the soldiers and headsmen were touched with pity and respect as these innocent men, most of them grey-headed, walked to their death.
From The Boy's Book of Heroes by Helena Peake
By the more sacrilegious of its essays this convict university of witches, shepherds, and headsmen, emboldened the other, obliged its rival to study.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
