Usually means: Executioner who beheads with axe.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word headsman:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. headsman: Merriam-Webster
  2. headsman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headsman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headsman: Collins English Dictionary
  5. headsman: Vocabulary.com
  6. Headsman, headsman: Wordnik
  7. headsman: Wiktionary
  8. headsman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. headsman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. headsman: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Headsman, headsman: Dictionary.com
  12. Headsman (comics), Headsman, The Headsman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Headsman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. headsman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. headsman: Rhymezone
  16. Headsman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. headsman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. headsman: FreeDictionary.org
  19. headsman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. headsman: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headsman: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headsman: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HEADSMAN, HEADSMAN, HEADSMAN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headsman: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See headsmans as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (headsman)

noun:  (obsolete or Scotland) A chief person; a head man
noun:  An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (nautical) One in command of a whaling vessel.

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