Headsman (Noun)
Meaning
An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The village was quiet the morning of the execution, except for the somber sound of the headsman sharpening his axe.
- During the Inquisition, the headsman was feared for his brutal efficiency in dispatching the accused to their maker.
- The young queen ordered the royal headsman to execute the traitors by beheading them on the castle walls.
- After a swift and gruesome execution, the headsman handed the prisoner's severed head to the hangman for display.
- Legend had it that the most notorious headsman of all time could chop off a head with a single swing of his heavy battle-axe.