beheader
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Etymology[edit]
From behead + -er. Compare Middle English hedere, hevedare (“decapitator, executioner”).
Noun[edit]
beheader (plural beheaders)
- One who beheads or decapitates.
- 2009 August 19, Dwight Garner, “Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior”, in New York Times[1]:
- Mr. Hunt is so successful at the first goal that the big takeaway of “Marx’s General” may be that Engels, best known as a ruthless party tactician, comes across as the Mario Batali of international communism: a jovial man of outsize appetites who was referred to by his son-in-law as “the great beheader of Champagne bottles.”
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one who beheads or decapitates
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