Definition of Beheaders

1. Noun. (plural of beheader) ¹

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Definition of Beheaders

1. beheader [n] - See also: beheader

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beheaders

behaviouralist
behaviouralists
behaviourally
behaviourism
behaviourist
behaviouristic
behaviouristic psychology
behaviourists
behaviours
behaviourwise
behead
beheadal
beheadals
beheaded
beheader
beheaders (current term)
beheading
beheadings
beheads
behear
beheard
beheart
behedge
beheld
beheldest
behell
behelm
behelp
behemoth
behemothian

Literary usage of Beheaders

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid (1861)
"... OR beheaders. IN our general sketch of the Amazonian Indians it was stated that there were some few tribes who differed' in certain customs from all the ..."

2. The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney (1896)
"... necklace people," perhaps a misconception of neck- cutting people, ie, beheaders. ... which he renders ''cut-throats or beheaders," but it may ..."

3. A Gazetteer of Ethnology by Akira Matsumura (1908)
"... (Shoshoni name meaning " beheaders ") ... ma (Comanche name meaning " beheaders"), Sioux (French corruption of the Algonquin word ..."

4. The Works of William E. Channing by William Ellery Channing (1819)
"I will show you the beheaders of Louis the Sixteenth. They were Louis the Fourteenth, and the Regent who followed him, and Louis the ..."

5. A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight by George Lyman Kittredge (1916)
"92,* in which Finn's head speaks when his beheaders are eating by the fire. A splendid epic story is that of the warning of ..."

6. Memoirs of Mlle. Des Écherolles: Being Sidelights on the Reign of Terror by Alexandrine Etiennette Marie Charlotte DesÉcherolles, Marie Clothilde Balfour (1904)
"... in the Lyons patois, means to lop, or head, young trees ; thus the beheaders of men were nicknamed ..."

7. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N. Z.) (1892)
"The Zambales, or beheaders, shaved the front part of the head, and wore on the skull a great lock of loose hair, which custom also obtained among the ..."

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