headswoman
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]headswoman (plural headswomen)
- A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation.
- 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3 part 9:
- No candid person will wholly dismiss the proposition that the idea of having a Lord Chancellor but not a Lady Chancellor may at least be connected with the idea of having a headsman but not a headswoman, a hangman but not a hangwoman.
- (East Anglia) (obsolete) A midwife.
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