headsman

n. 刽子手, 捕鲸船船长, 坑内运煤工

发音

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词形变化

headsmen 复数 headsmen

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A chief person; a head man

    苏格兰 废旧
  2. 2.

    An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.

  3. 3.

    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.

    历史 商务 采矿
  4. 4.

    One in command of a whaling vessel.

    航海 交通

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

headman

上位词 2

man executioner

词源

From Middle English heddysman, equivalent to head + -s- + -man. Cognate with Scots hedisman, heidisman (“head man; chief; commander”). Compare also Danish høvedsmand (“captain”), Swedish hövitsman (“captain”), Icelandic höfuðsmaður (“captain”), German Hauptmann (“captain”).

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