Definitions for headsmen

headsmen heads·man

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

Headsmen 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 313 anagrams from letters in headsmen (adeehmns).

Definitions for headsmen

noun

  1. a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.

Origin of headsmen

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

Examples for headsmen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for headsmen
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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