headless horseman
headless horseman is the alternative letter-case form of Headless Horseman.
Proper noun capitalized: Headless Horseman
the Headless Horseman
- A mythical figure who has appeared in folklore around the world since the Middle Ages, who is traditionally depicted as a man upon horseback who is missing his head.
Noun capitalized: Headless Horseman
Headless Horseman (plural Headless Horsemen)
- A mythical man (perhaps of several) upon horseback who is missing his head, inspired by the Headless Horseman mythical figure.
- The zone is normally the site of the battle with the headless horsemen, where you would have had to kill at least 100 to move on. The horsemen arestill here butarein the orchard picking apple points. We shall be OK providedwe stick to ...2006, Lindsey R. Hall, The Net Warriors, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN
- The three headless horsemen fired back at the Smith and Wesson brothers killing them. Then the three headless horsemen threw the Smith and Wesson brother's dead bodies on the back of their horses and rode back to the mountain and cut ...2012, Drac Von Stoller, The Headless Horsemen, Drac Von Stoller, →ISBN
- A corpse of a man that is missing the head due to decapitation.
- They had dozens of names for different types of corpses—“crispy critters,” “stinkers,” “floaters,” “dunkers,” and “Headless Horsemen,” just to name a few. Butch Farabee, national emergency services coordinator for the National Park ..2003, Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival: Who Lives, who Dies, and why : True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 39
- ... of women who'd been murdered in 1980 and unclaimed bodies that had turned up for years after that. He'd become acquainted with a virtual dictionary of shrug-off terms for corpses - floaters, crispy critters, headless horsemen.2012, Gregg Hurwitz, You're Next, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 83
Forms of headless horseman
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | headless horsemen |
| plural | Headless Horsemen |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | headless horseman |
Words formed from headless horseman
Questions about headless horseman
- What does headless horseman mean?
- Headless horseman means a mythical figure who has appeared in folklore around the world since the Middle Ages, who is traditionally depicted as a man upon horseback who is missing his head.
- What is headless horseman the alternative letter-case form of?
- Headless horseman is the alternative letter-case form of Headless Horseman.
- What part of speech is headless horseman?
- Headless horseman can be a proper noun or a noun.
Words near headless horseman in the dictionary
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