"headswoman" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From head + -s- + -woman.",
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    {
      "form": "headswomen",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "_dis": "59 41",
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          "name": "Healthcare occupations",
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          "name": "Obstetrics",
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          "ref": "1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3 part 9:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation."
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          "executioner",
          "executioner"
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          "decapitation",
          "decapitation"
        ]
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        {
          "ref": "1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia, volume II, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, page 154:",
          "text": "HEADSWOMAN, s. a midwife. It would be presumptuous to pry into obstetric mysteries, to discover the origin or propriety of this denomination.",
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        }
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        "(obsolete) A midwife."
      ],
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        "(East Anglia) (obsolete) A midwife."
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  "word": "headswoman"
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    "en:Healthcare occupations",
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  ],
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        }
      ],
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        "A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation."
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        "(obsolete) A midwife."
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          "midwife"
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        "(East Anglia) (obsolete) A midwife."
      ],
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        "East-Anglia"
      ]
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  "word": "headswoman"
}