headman
hed muhn
- n an executioner who beheads the condemned person
- n the head of a tribe or clan
- Roll forward to 1952, and a local headman falls into a trance, has a vision and announces that God has told him the Mizos are the lost tribe.
- Nadar Singh, the village headman, says there have been some 20 cancer-related deaths during the last five years in Jhajjal, a village of only 3,200.
- The villagers say their own headman, and those of neighboring hamlets, are not on their side.