beheader en · NOUN
Etymology
From behead + -er. Compare Middle English hedere, hevedare (“decapitator, executioner”).
Meanings
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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 man of outsize appetites who was referred to by his son-in-law as “the great beheader of Champagne bottles.”
2009 August 19, Dwight Garner, “Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior”, in New York Times:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| beheaders | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (3)
fi mestaaja (one who beheads or decapitates) · pt decapitador (one who beheads or decapitates) · fr décapiteur (one who beheads or decapitates)