headsman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chief person; a head man Scotland,obsolete
  2. An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
    — 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.
  3. A labourer in a colliery who transports the coal from the workings to the horseway, and who is oftentimes assisted by a younger worker called a foal. historical
  4. One in command of a whaling vessel.

词形变化

headsmen plural

词汇关系

近义词
beheader decapitator

词源

From Middle English heddysman, equivalent to head + -s- + -man. Cognate with Scots hedisman, heidisman (“head man; chief; commander”). Compare also Danish høvedsmand (“captain”), Swedish hövitsman (“captain”), Icelandic höfuðsmaður (“captain”), German Hauptmann (“captain”).
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