An executioner who beheads the condemned person.
1 She was determined to maintain her dignity right to the headsman 's block.
2 Meanwhile the headsman could be heard singing within his room the hymn:
3 At night the headsman 's apprentices sleep on the floor of the loft.
4 Upon this was a block, and by the side stood a headsman .
5 We get to the headsman though I have hardly noticed the walk.
6 One of those who had brought him thither was the headsman 's apprentice.
7 An angel proclaiming remission of sins in the house of the headsman !
8 The headsman 's 'prentice with twitching features gazed fixedly at the interrogated wretch.
9 The unknown smiled so sympathetically at the childish simile of the old headsman .
10 The prisons were filling up; the headsman 's arm was growing weary.
11 Those who survive the Seekers for Truth meet the axe of the headsman .
12 Before the end of the week you'd be staring at the headsman 's axe.
13 A burglar shoots a policeman dead and the public headsman decapitates a criminal.
14 Near her, exhausted also, sank down the headsman , bathed in sweat.
15 Just before he was executed he asked the headsman what his name was.
16 The headsman 's wife regarded the stranger with eyes full of doubt and astonishment.
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