Definitions for headsman

headsman heads·man

Spelling: [hedz-muh n]
IPA: /ˈhɛdz mən/

Headsman is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in headsman (aadehmns).

Definitions for headsman

noun

  1. a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.

Origin of headsman

First recorded in 1595-1605; head + 's1 + man1

Examples for headsman

In vain: him, too, the headsman's axe sent to his account at the Halles.

The headsman, on the other hand, had scarcely anything to do to earn his hundred guilders.

But I swear that I shall not help you to escape the headsman.

And as I said this, I untied my cravat, and appeared to prepare for the headsman.

These vermin are more to be feared than hangman's cord or headsman's axe.'

A poniard was buried to the hilt in the left breast of the headsman.

The headsman hastened to place his own cloak beneath him, so displaying the axe.

Just before he was executed he asked the headsman what his name was.

The “headsman,” taking the part of conductor, pushes behind.

It is in the names of Liberty and Brotherhood that the prisons will reek, and the headsman be glutted.

Word Value for headsman
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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