beheader

One who beheads or decapitates.

Noun

  1. One who beheads or decapitates.
    • 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...

Origin

From behead + -er. Compare Middle English hedere, hevedare (“decapitator, executioner”).

Forms

beheaders

Synonyms

decapitator headsman

Related

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