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   What does headman mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! HEADMAN definition: 1. the chief (= leader) of a village or group of people 2. the chief (= leader) of a village or…. Learn more.

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   What is a village headman?

   • A headman is the male chief or leader of a tribe in a village. The village headman invited us in for tea. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 2. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. Rare Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.

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   Who is a district headman?

   • The district headman is the deputy of the tribal ward headman to whom he is immediately responsible. We retraced our steps a few miles up the valley to a village ruled over by a friendly woman, the widow of the late headman. The people saw him and welcomed him back, making him their Headman, and giving him the place of honor in their gatherings.

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   What did the freed headmen do?

   • The freed headmen, who no doubt had a new appreciation of the governor's power, were then instructed to make house-to-house searches for stolen property. Often they held the most land and maintained a semi-heriditary hold on the positions of village shaykh and cumda (headman).

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   How popular were the headmen in the colonial era?

   • In reality, however, the popularity of the headmen varied considerably. According to the headman of the town, cattle live well here but horses die off soon after ai^rival. They were senior workers, who sometimes rose from the ranks, sometimes were established headmen. Kings and headmen who resisted colonial rule were removed.

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   What if a group felt oppressed by a local headman?

   • Locked up for more than twenty days, the headman finally sold his livestock and paid off the kaymakam. Hence, where a group felt oppressed by a local headman, it could nominate and elect its own local leader to escape this oppression. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   Headman definition: a chief or leader.. See examples of HEADMAN used in a sentence.

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   The meaning of HEADMAN is foreman, overseer. as headman at the newspaper 20 years ago, he hired the then-promising young reporter who won this year's Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting

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   Define headman. headman synonyms, headman pronunciation, headman translation, English dictionary definition of headman. n. 1. The chief man especially of a tribal or ...

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   2 meanings: 1. anthropology a chief or leader 2. a foreman or overseer.... Click for more definitions.

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