HEADSMAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An executioner who beheads the condemned person

Synonyms:

headman; headsman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

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