1. a person or device that beheads; one who cuts off the head of another
Usage: often historical or literary context; can refer to an executioner or to a tool/machine

Examples

• The executioner, known as the beheader, carried out the sentence with grim efficiency.
• In medieval times, the beheader was a feared figure in the town square.
• The guillotine was an infamous beheader of the French Revolution.
• Historical accounts describe the beheader's role in capital punishment.
• The novel's villain was portrayed as a ruthless beheader of his enemies.