Beheader
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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.”"
Example
More examples"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.”"
Etymology
From behead + -er. Compare Middle English hedere, hevedare (“decapitator, executioner”).
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