How To Use headsman In A Sentence
- The mate, who acted as boat-steerer, now came to his proper place in the stern, where he guided the boat by an oar passed through a ring called a grummet, while the headsman, who had before been steering, took his place in the bow, armed with several lances, ready to plunge into the body of the whale the instant it again appeared. The Voyage of the "Steadfast" The Young Missionaries in the Pacific
- The executioner who is called a headsman then walks forward approaching the chair from the rear. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
- Set in the 16th century, it shows us the romantic life of a headsman, that is, the executioner who must chop people's heads off when they misbehave.
- Gobseck is a banker, just as the headsman is a doctor. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
- The speed with which he cleared the service of Democrats earned him the title "headsman" and is indicated by the estimate that he removed one every three minutes for the first year. The United States Since the Civil War
- Mounting a stage before a roaring fire, she spent her last moments in great dignity, only to die at the hands of an incompetent headsman who missed her neck with his first stroke.
- Monmouth himself was captured, and executed by a headsman who botched his job.
- It was let down to the ground, and there came the "headsman," whose task it was to sever the head, with two or three swift strokes. The Jungle
- The "headsman," taking the part of conductor, pushes behind. The Mines and its Wonders
- According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes off from the ship, with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary steersman, and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost oar, the one known as the harpooneer-oar. Moby Dick; or the Whale
