Associations to the word «Headsman»

Wiktionary

HEADSMAN, noun. An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.

Dictionary definition

HEADSMAN, noun. An executioner who beheads the condemned person.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats