One who sheds blood, one who commits slaughter; a murderer.
1530. Tindale, Pract. Prelates, Wks. II. 264. A cruel and unrighteous bloodshedder.
1611. Bible, Ecclus. xxxiv. 22. Hee that defraudeth the labourer of his hire, is a bloodshedder.
1862. Mayhew, Crim. Prisons, 145. The bloodshedder who was passing the prison yard moodily.
