The head of a tribe or clan.
An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
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Examples for "chief "
1 Water New Zealand chief executive Gillian Blythe said regulation was sorely needed.
2 Business would also suffer, Business New Zealand chief executive Kirk Hope said.
3 Superb police work, chief : When you friend suggest you break the law.
4 The deputy chief said authorities now believe those were the only victims.
5 The fire lasted just three minutes, the fire department chief said today.
1 The scion of some important chieftain 's family, Rillish had come to suppose.
2 Wa-on-mon is a great chieftain ; the heart of the missionary is grieved.
3 After the chieftain had been won the minor leaders in time followed.
4 A chieftain proudly climbed the wagon; a bond-servant humbly handed Margaret down.
5 Next to the chieftain rode Scarbreast, the grim war-lord of the Navajos.
1 His father is an old khan, a tribal chief from the east.
2 The Bedouin glanced at Abu Sufyan, but the tribal chief had no response.
3 Over a group of villages is the pargana or tribal chief .
4 Father, mother, tribal chief , or clan elder may make the decision.
5 He was the son of a tribal chief and qualified as a lawyer.
1 The delegation led the visitors straight to the house of the headman .
2 The headman 's nephew came running from the huts, pointing out to sea.
3 We ate our lunch in the headman 's room in the village office.
4 Police said the headman was allegedly assaulted by the accused and died.
5 The headman of the village immediately despatched two messengers for the police.
6 I wonder what part he plays in all this, the Mamut - headman thought.
7 He took the Staff from the headman , struck the ground three times.
8 The headman is par excellence the judge of his family or ward.
9 Without their vigorous seconding the headman would have a hard time indeed.
10 The headman fell back and looked at Compton, who then stepped forward.
11 There's some medical nanonic packages in the village, the headman 's got some.
12 So I married Jeanrenaud, a good fellow, and headman on the salt-barges.
13 The Mamut - headman of the Mammoth Camp turned his attention back to Ayla.
14 Many of the guests were wiping streaming eyes; the headman was distracted.
15 In the silence the voice of the old headman was heard:
16 The admiring Camp left no doubt what they thought of their headman 's feat.
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