beheader

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beheader

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

noun beheaders

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 behea
Similar: decapitator, headsman

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noun one who beheads or decapitates

Português	decapitador
Français	décapiteur

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@misc{beheader_2026,
  title = {beheader},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beheader},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}