What is "headmen"

Usage examples of "headmen".

From the headmen of these villages they hired, for payment of beads, rolls of copper wire and other stores such as fishing line, rope and bronze nails, a motley flotilla of feluccas and outrigger fishing-dhows.

Within the fence of the kraal, seated in its shadow, I found Umbezi and some of his headmen, and with them a great, brawny "ringed"

Only, for some reason which I never quite understood, Masapo, Mameena and a few of Masapo's children and headmen were detained there.

Most of the headmen had taken one side or the other, and were away raising forces to fight for Cetewayo or Umbelazi, and even the greater part of the women and children had gone to hide themselves in the bush or among the mountains, since none knew what would happen, or if the conquering army would not fall upon and destroy them.

Let him do the talking those headmen are the biggest bunch of rogues you'll ever meet.

Also they will tell the headmen who we are, and threaten them with the rope.

I didn’t think the governor would dare kill my headmen, when I had the Devi, but it seems he did.

The headmen and minor nobles with whom Leo had forged an alliance and a guard here began to mutter.

If this chief and his headmen were massacred here this night, there would be a full-scale war the length of the border.

At her orders the governor of Peshkhauri, a border city, captured seven Afghuli headmen and threatened to hang them unless Conan put his forces at her disposal.

They had learned of the death of the seven headmen, and believed he had betrayed them.

Here we would meet with the Hetgurd, a loose alliance of Outislander headmen, for a discussion of our quest.