headman

CEFRC2

/hˈɛdmən/

noun

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The election of the village headman had been postponed.
But then Nash speaks to the school headman on Josie's behalf and persuades him to admit my youngest son.

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Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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My headman cast me in a blissful swoon, His axe cut off my cares from cumbered breast.
Their axe was a replica of one which belonged to Magdeburg's headman —famous executioner Wilhelm Riedel.
Teachers were in the playground and our school Headman, Mrs. Rupali Chandra was on the stage.

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But then Nash speaks to the school headman on Josie's behalf and persuades him to admit my youngest son.
1995, Evelyn Wilde Mayerson, Miami, page 203
My headman cast me in a blissful swoon, His axe cut off my cares from cumbered breast.
2007, Decease Release, “Decease Release”, in Robert S. Miola, editor, Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources, page 197
The execution was horribly botched by a clumsy headman: 'You're hurting me,' cried the victim as the executioner hacked at his neck sixteen times until he just climbed onto the unfortunate's back and sawed through his spinal column as if he was sacrificing a sheep.
2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 428
Their axe was a replica of one which belonged to Magdeburg's headman —famous executioner Wilhelm Riedel.
2020, Beata Gontarczyk-Krampe, Notmsparker's Second Berlin Companion
The headman entered the neighbor's house with his dog, and all the women ran into the rooms and closed the doors, and some of the curious little boys who wanted to see the headman's dog with their own eyes wisened up after the dag walked in, and they hurried up the yard's trees like cats.
2023, Mahdi Kazemian, The Headman's Dog, page 5

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