Headless Horseman

Headless Horseman
Headless Horse|man, the
a ↑ghost (=the spirit of a dead person) with no head, who rides a horse. He appears in several ghost stories, the most famous of which is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) by Washington Irving.

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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