From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Henchman \Hench"man\ (h[e^]nch"man), noun; pl. {-men} (-men). [OE. hencheman, henxman; prob. fr. OE. & AS. hengest horse + E. man, and meaning, a groom. AS. hengest is akin to D. & G. hengst stallion, OHG. hengist horse, gelding.] An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: someone who assists in a plot [syn: {confederate}, {collaborator}, {partner in crime}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "henchman": adherent, appendage, associate, attendant, bodyguard, buddy, buff, cavaliere servente, cohort, confidant, courtier, creature, crony, dangler, dependent, disciple, dummy, fan, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, gangster, gillie, goon, gunsel, hanger-on, hatchet man, heavy, heeler, homme de cour, hooligan, jackal, lackey, man, minion, myrmidon, parasite, partisan, public, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, retainer, right-hand man, satellite, sectary, servant, shadow, sidekick, stooge, successor, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, thug, torpedo, trainbearer, votary, ward heeler
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