slayer

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[92 That Enkidu originally played the part of the slayer is also shown by the statement that it is he who insults Ishtar by throwing a piece of the carcass into the goddess' face, [93] adding also an insulting speech; and this despite the fact that Ishtar in her rage accuses Gilgamesh of killing the bull.

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  1. One who slays; a killer; a murderer; an assassin; a destroyer of life. If the red slayer thinks he slays. Emerson, Brahma.

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  • It is I whom the world will know as the slayer of my friend. —  AdventureTales#1
  • That his slayer was a slip of an English spinster made the prospect all the more delicious. —  Loretta Chase - Lord of Scoundrels
  • "It was told in the ears of this slave that your honour was very wrathful concerning the escape of the brother-slayer, and he presumed to approach unbidden with news And what is the news?" —  The Path to Honour
  • The death of Alice Webster is unavenged; her slayer is at large, a human beast of prey; father and mother are in frightful suspense; the spectral hand of the drowned girl beckons me to revenge upon her murderer; but ignoring all these, I am a selfish, cowardly 'derelict,' fearful of possible harm Then he exclaims: "Not too fast! —  Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898
  • Gudleif was a great man-slayer, and one of the strongest of men, and hardy and forward in everything Two brothers dwelt at Beruness; the name of the one was Thorleif, but the other was Kettle. —  The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga
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  1. from Middle English slaer, sleer, sleere (= Middle Low German sleger = German schläger, a beater, fighter, mallet), a slayer;* from slay + -er.
 

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