headman in English

noun
1
the chief or leader of a community or tribe.
This is where community leaders such chiefs, headmen and indeed agricultural extension officers need to step in and carry out a massive education campaign.
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1. Headman (Leadhand), Squad Leader, Group Leader.

2. He is the headman of school basket ball team.

3. Enough , headman, put that aside. Don't ask me that.

4. A Levite descendant of Gershon through Ladan; a “headman.”

5. Before long the headman was completely accepted by the villagers.

6. After congratulations on them, I interview the headman of the group.

7. 18 Of the sons of Izʹhar,+ She·loʹmith+ was the headman.

8. The headman brought all the villagers home in the evening.

9. Supervised by a headman, people thrust their hands into boiling oil.

10. Since ancient times, circle headman water door, with water for a living, in harmony.

11. The headman of the gypsies, cowed and nervous, was apparently trying to offer explanations.

12. "Do you have scruples about that old headman in the temple?"The sea pumice disagrees a way.

13. The Headman too was bright and intelligent, and they had a cheery conversation with me as interpreter.

14. The Southern Athapaskan groups were divided into tribelets, with each tribelet having a headman or chief

15. When the day arrived, the headman assembled all the villagers and led them into the jungle.

16. And the headman tells the villagers to give them food and let them stay at the mosque.

17. Bearded, with natural dignity and quiet authority, this reserved man soon earned the position of second headman.

18. I sleep each night on a temple ashram floor, or with the family of the village headman.

19. Eventually the headman passed on the hookah stem and stood up, saying he'd go and fetch the soothsayer.

20. It now remained to be seen whether this headman would be able to hand us over to another in Bahdu.

21. Beowulf, a warrior and headman of the Geats (a Swedish tribe), engages him in combat and mortally wounds him

22. Born Fidelis Mudzengi, acting Chief Chirumhanzu said actions by Headman Chimbi Clive Makusha were bent on wrestling the Chieftainship from him

23. In addition to being clever, the headman was also very greedy. Collecting the king's taxes was not enough reward for him.

24. When a warrant was issued for his arrest, the Hue and Cry listed among his friends four headmen and an ex-headman.

25. Thus the headman had a veto over criminal prosecutions for the petty offences over which village tribunals had exclusive jurisdiction.

26. 30 Thus the headman had a veto over criminal prosecutions for the petty offences over which village tribunals had exclusive jurisdiction.

27. Before long, news of the crime reached the king. He recalled the treacherous headman and punished him according to the law.

28. Their job was difficult, frustrating, and sometimes dangerous; in many communities, the system grew moribund because no one wanted to serve as headman.

29. Wards are subdivided into villages, each of which has an elected Village Development Committee and a Headman (traditional leader subordinate to the kraalhead).

30. Need to know his this one get married, much three people eat , the difficult task living may let his headman press on lower only.

31. Ring headman horse to tightly pucker up eyebrows, flying the body ambition work to save a person, but at this moment where in period!

32. Although the community still maintains the traditional leadership ranks of tribal elder, headman and the like, their influence is not what it once was.

33. Yesterday I met with the headman of the fishing village, and asked that we be allowed to hang up rice sacks for the rubbish on the ground.

34. A feasible way is developing tourism estate of minority headman culture. It will produce important action to developing social economy of the Three Gorges of Yangtze River.