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  • noun One who beheads or decapitates.

Etymologies

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be- + head + -er

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Examples

  • Zarzi was a drug lord, a beheader, a Taliban sympathizer, but because of all that, he is more, rather than less, valuable to us.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Zarzi was a drug lord, a beheader, a Taliban sympathizer, but because of all that, he is more, rather than less, valuable to us.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • A samurai warrior, before going into battle, would burn incense in his helmet so that if an enemy took his head he would at least offer his beheader a pleasant aroma.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • The paddle end had been used as a shovel, beheader and shell-cracker.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • The beheader is used in California, as it was before 1870, and in the prairie regions the sheaf-carrier has recently been introduced, holding the sheaves until enough are collected to make a shock.

    If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

  • I read the treatise through, and was so smitten with the accurate view it exhibited of the theatres of these days, that I immediately determined to transport myself, as well as I could, to the golden times of the _beheader of Mary Queen of Scots_.

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3

  • The paddle end had been used as a shovel, beheader and shell-cracker.

    Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • He is, in fact, the only spectacled beheader present.

    The Holiday Round 1919

  • Revolution, and beheader of Louis XVI.; he attended two masses commemorating the death of the King, celebrated in 1793 and 1794, by the Abbe de Marolles, to whom his identity was afterwards disclosed by

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • SELKIRK, Man - There will be more guards, but no fence at a Winnipeg-area mental health facility where bus beheader Vince Li has been granted escorted walks.

    CTV BritishColumbiaHome 2010

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