headsman

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headsman englannista suomeksi

  1. pyöveli

  1. Substantiivi

headsman englanniksi

  1. A chief person; a man

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

  3. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes)

  4. (RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado)"

  5. 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.

  6. One in command of a whaling vessel.