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skarprättare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • executioner noun A person whose job is to carry out death sentences.
  • headsman noun A chief person; a head man

Senses

skarprättare is used for these senses in English:

  • executioner An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
  • headsman An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.

headsman — full definition

  1. noun A chief person; a head man
  2. noun An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun One in command of a whaling vessel.

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