Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
10
Ääntäminen
US
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| kreikka | δήμιος (dímios / ðímios) |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (obsolete or Scotland) A chief person; a head man
- An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
- (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.
- (nautical) One in command of a whaling vessel.
Esimerkit
- And of those base-minded jesters or buffons, some have beene seene, that even at the point of death would never leave their jesting and scoffing. He whom the heads-man threw off from the Gallowes cried out, ‘Row the Gally,’ which was his ordinarie by-word.
- And made him Headsman, for we said, / "Who's next to be decapited / Cannot cut off another's head / Until he's cut his own off"
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | headsmen |
An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia
An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
Photograph (hand-coloured), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of Rewah, Central India, with large executioner's sword (Tegha sword)
An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563