headsman, headman
(noun) an executioner who beheads the condemned person
Source: WordNet® 3.1
headsman (plural headsmen)
(obsolete or Scotland) A chief person; a head man
An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
(mining, historical) 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.
(nautical) One in command of a whaling vessel.
• (one who executes via decapitation): beheader
Source: Wiktionary
Heads"man, n; pl. Headsmen (.
Definition: An executioner who cuts off heads. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.