manqueller

plural manquellers · alternative man-queller · alternative man queller

1. obsoleteA killer of men; a manslayer; executioner.
2. obsoleteA murderer.

   you must vnderstand , that this was not Kayne the manqueller , but one of a gentler spirit , and milder sex

   1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC

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   Wilt thou kill God's officers and the king's? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue! Thou art a honey-seed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.

   c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]