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Definition of Beheaders
1. beheader [n] - See also: beheader
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beheaders
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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