Yanni is the village headsman.
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Headsman
Synonyms for "headsman" (4 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (2)
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7 translations across 7 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- جَلَّاد noun (An executioner)
Bulgarian
1 entries- палач noun (An executioner)
Etruscan
1 entries- 𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌀 class noun (An executioner)
Greek
1 entries- αποκεφαλιστής noun (An executioner)
Italian
1 entries- carnefice noun (An executioner)
Macedonian
1 entries- главосек noun (An executioner)
Swedish
1 entries- skarprättare noun (An executioner)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
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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[…]"
Source: wiktionary
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