wolf's head
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English
Etymology
Calque of Latin caput lupinum.
Noun
wolf's head (plural wolf's heads)
- (UK, obsolete, law) In mediaeval times, an outlaw; one who may be slain without judicial enquiry.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 48:
- “Bonny times,” he said, “I have lived to see, when a lad of Earl Oslac’s blood is sent out of the land, a beggar and a wolf’s head, for playing a boy’s trick or two, and upsetting a shaveling priest.”.