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