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(obsolete or Scotland) A chief person; a head man

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Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (obsolete or Scotland) A chief person; a head man
  • An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
  • (mining, historical) 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.
  • (nautical) One in command of a whaling vessel.

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