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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca