BEHEAD, BEHEADED, BEHEADING
ADJECTIVES
1470 — DECOLLATE beheaded → obs.
1548 — SHORTER BY THE HEAD beheaded → obs.
1662 — DECOLLATED beheaded, decapitated; severed at the neck
NOUNS
1387 — DECOLLATION a beheading; the fact of being beheaded
1581 — MAIDEN the instrument, similar to the guillotine, formerly used in Edinburgh for beheading criminals
1685 — HEAD-HILL the spot where criminals were beheaded; the hill of execution → Sc. obs.
1859 — BEHEADAL a beheading, execution by decapitation
NOUNS – PERSON
1440 — HEADER an executioner who kills by beheading → obs.
1562 — HEADSMAN an executioner, one who administers death by beheading
1631 — HEADMAN an executioner; one who administers death by beheading → hist.
VERBS
1450 — NECK to behead; to strike on the neck, esp. so as to stun or kill → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1525 — MAKE A PERSON’S BEARD WITHOUT A RAZOR to behead a person → obs.
1548 — CUT SHORTER BY THE HEAD to behead
1577 — POLL to cut off the head of a person, animal, etc.; to behead → obs.
1599 — DECOLLATE to behead; to sever at the neck
1648 — DECOLL to behead → obs.