beheader

behead +‎ -er

beheader (plural beheaders)

1. One who beheads or decapitates.
   • 2009 August 19, Dwight Garner, “Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior”, in New York Times‎:

     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.”

• decapitator
• headsman

• behead
• header
• head

• beerhead