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Headman vs Headsman - What's the difference?

headman | headsman |

As nouns the difference between headman and headsman

is that headman is while headsman is an executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.

headman

English

Noun

(headmen)
  • (informal) headmaster
    • The headman came and talked to me.

    Related terms

    * hetman

    headsman

    English

    Noun

    (headsmen)
  • An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:And of those base-minded jesters or buffons, some have beene seene, that even at the point of death would never leave their jesting and scoffing. He whom the heads-man threw off from the Gallowes cried out, ‘Row the Gally,’ which was his ordinarie by-word.
  • * 1885 ,
    • And made him Headsman , for we said, / "Who's next to be decapited / Cannot cut off another's head / Until he's cut his own off"

    Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals