headswoman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation.
    — No candid person will wholly dismiss the proposition that the idea of having a Lord Chancellor but not a Lady Chancellor may at least be connected with the idea of having a headsman but not a headswoman, a hangman but not a hangwoman.
  2. (obsolete) A midwife. East-Anglia
    — HEADSWOMAN, s. a midwife. It would be presumptuous to pry into obstetric mysteries, to discover the origin or propriety of this denomination.

词形变化

headswomen plural

词源

From head + -s- + -woman.
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