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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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
In 1879 the honor fell to one Louis Deibier, heir of a long line of Breton 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
On the morrow informers and headsmen were at work.
From Imperial Purple by Edgar Saltus
Fetters and headsmen were the coarse instruments which tyranny formerly employed; but the civilization of our age has refined the arts of despotism which seemed, however, to have been sufficiently perfected before.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Henry Reeves
