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n. A public executioner who beheads condemned prisoners.

n. An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.

n. An executioner who cuts off heads.

n. A chief person; a head man.

n. One who cuts off the heads of condemned persons; a public executioner.

n. A laborer in a colliery who conveys the coal from the workings to the horseway.

n. an executioner who beheads the condemned person

"The coward and the tyrant call the headsman at any provocation, and fall to him the same, Inaglione had written."

public executioner    executioner   

chief    executioner   

hangman    woodman    woodcutter    executioner    mock-tudor    torture-chamber    woodsman    tic-tac-toe    guillotine    garotte