(obsolete, or, Scotland) A chief person; a head man.
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An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
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(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.
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