Headsman vs Headsmen - What's the difference?
headsman | 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 ,
As nouns the difference between headsman and headsmen
is that headsman is an executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation while headsmen is .headsman
English
Noun
(headsmen)- 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"
