What is "beheads"

Usage examples of "beheads".

Much as the sportsman loves the fox, it is a moment to him of keen enjoyment when he puts his heavy boot on the beast's body,--the expectant dogs standing round demanding their prey--and there both beheads and betails him.

APPARENTLY with no surpriseTo any happy flower,The frost beheads it at its playIn accidental power.

The spinning shield decapitated their commander as neatly as a farmwife beheads a chicken.