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

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche