📖 Definitions of "Headsman"
noun
- 1
A chief person; a head man
- 2
An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
- 3
A labourer in a colliery who transports the coal from the workings to the horseway, and who is oftentimes assisted by a younger worker called a foal.
- 4
One in command of a whaling vessel.
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