GUILLOTINE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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.

2.
n.

Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

3.
v.

To behead with the guillotine.


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