Guillotine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A device consisting of a heavy blade held aloft between upright guides and dropped to behead the victim below.
  • n. An instrument, such as a paper cutter, similar in action to a guillotine.
  • v. To behead with a guillotine.
  • v. To cut with or as if with a guillotine.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade.
  • n. A device used for cutting stacks of paper to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged blade attached to a flat platform.
  • n. A cloture; a motion that debate be ended and a vote taken.
  • v. To execute, cut or cut short (a person, a stack of paper or a debate) by use of a guillotine.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
  • n. Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
  • v. To behead with the guillotine.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A machine used in France for beheading condemned persons by the action of a heavily weighted, oblique-edged knife falling between two grooved posts upon the neck of the victim, whose head protrudes through a circular hole in a divided plank.
  • n. One of several machines similar in principle to the above, much used for cutting paper, straw, etc. Also called guillotine cutter.
  • n. In surgery, an instrument for cutting the tonsils.
  • To behead by the guillotine.
  • n. A machine for breaking iron by means of a falling weight.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
  • n. instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
  • v. kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine
    • Verb Form
    guillotined    guillotines    guillotining   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    closure    gag rule    gag law    clôture    instrument of execution   
    Form
    guillotined    guillotining   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    headsman    garrote    pillory    gibbet   
     
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