English Explanatory Dictionary

headswoman

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation.
  2. (obsolete) A midwife.

Word forms

headswoman headswomen

Etymology

From head + -s- + -woman.

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