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Beheader

noun

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Noun
  1. 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.”"

Etymology

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

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