beheader
nounEtymology From behead + -er. Compare Middle English hedere, hevedare (“decapitator, executioner”).
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 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:
- Synonyms
- decapitator, headsman
- Coordinate terms
- beheadee