An executioner who kills by beheading. Cf. headsman, n. 2. Obsolete.

A person who administers justice. Obsolete. rare.

An executioner, spec. one who administers death by beheading. Now chiefly historical.

= headsman, n. 2. Now chiefly historical.

One who decapitates.

In sense 2a, as heading axe, heading block, heading hill, heading man, †heading stead, heading sword, etc. Now rare (archaic and historical in later…

One who decollates; a decapitator.

A person who cuts something off or causes something to be cut off.