English Dictionary

headsman

noun

(obsolete or Scotland) A chief person; a head man / An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.

The headsman was responsible for carrying out executions.

意味（1）

(obsolete or Scotland) A chief person; a head man

意味（2）

An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.

And of those base-minded jesters or buffons, some have beene seene, that even at the point of death would never leave their jesting and scoffing. He whom the heads-man threw off from the Gallowes cried out, ‘Row the Gally,’ which was his ordinarie by-word.

意味（3）

(mining, historical) 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.

意味（4）

(nautical) One in command of a whaling vessel.