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What does headsman mean?

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Noun
  1. An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
  2. (mining, historical) A boy who was not strong enough to put on his own, and was thus assisted by a younger boy called a foal.
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With the braggart dash and swagger of the soldiers of fortune amongst whom Deutsch had served, the headsman presents the Baptist's head with exaggerated courtliness to Salome.
The headsman, on the other hand, had scarcely anything to do to earn his hundred guilders.
And as I said this, I untied my cravat, and appeared to prepare for the headsman.
While Henry VIII, said to be a gout sufferer, could do his explaining with a headsman for anyone bold enough to ask him about his diet, simpler folks may need to settle for a flack.
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.
The song is supposed to be read as a metaphor: the lover is like a headsman.

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