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HEADSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headsman mean? 

HEADSMAN (noun)
  The noun HEADSMAN has 1 sense:

1. an executioner who beheads the condemned personplay

  Familiarity information: HEADSMAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEADSMAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An executioner who beheads the condemned person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

headman; headsman

Hypernyms ("headsman" is a kind of...):

executioner; public executioner (an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant)


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