Associations to the word «Headman»

Wiktionary

HEADMAN, noun. Alternative spelling of head man
HEADMAN, noun. (informal) headmaster

Dictionary definition

HEADMAN, noun. An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
HEADMAN, noun. The head of a tribe or clan.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne