Guillotine

Word GUILLOTINE
Character 10
Hyphenation guil lo tine
Pronunciations /ˈɡiː.ə.tiːn/

Definitions and meanings of "Guillotine"

What do we mean by guillotine?

A device consisting of a heavy blade held aloft between upright guides and dropped to behead a person condemned to die. noun

An instrument, such as a paper cutter, similar in action to a guillotine. noun

To behead with a guillotine. transitive verb

To cut with a guillotine or sharp blade. transitive verb

A machine for breaking iron by means of a falling weight. noun

To behead by the guillotine.

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. noun

One of several machines similar in principle to the above, much used for cutting paper, straw, etc. Also called guillotine cutter. noun

In surgery, an instrument for cutting the tonsils. noun

To behead with the guillotine. transitive verb

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. noun

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

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. noun

A device used for cutting stacks of paper to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged blade attached to a flat platform. noun

A cloture; a motion that debate be ended and a vote taken. noun

To execute, cut or cut short (a person, a stack of paper or a debate) by use of a guillotine. verb

Closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill noun

Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people noun

Kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine verb

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.

A device used for cutting stacks of paper to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged blade attached to a flat platform.

A cloture; a motion that debate be ended and a vote taken.

A surgical instrument for cutting the tonsils.

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The word "guillotine" in example sentences

So this interest in the guillotine is the centrifugal force, if you will. ❋ Unknown (2004)

His streamlined, Shaolin-infused raps prioritized what he termed guillotine swordsmanship and the God theory of Five Percent, the Nation of Islam offshoot-not commercial claptrap. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Why bother with the Divine Right of Kings when the guillotine is handy? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In parliamentary procedure, cloture (pronounced/ˈkloʊtʃər/KLOH-chər), also called closure and sometimes a guillotine, is a motion or process aimed at bringing debate to a quick end. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wonder if that guillotine is a first in recent literary fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(To the best of my knowledge, the guillotine is no longer being used.) ❋ Unknown (2006)

The guillotine is about to drop on this administration, as soon as Fitzgerald is good and ready. ❋ Unknown (2005)

One of the sentinels, posted inside the tower, wrote one day on the door of the king's chamber: "The guillotine is permanent, and is awaiting the tyrant, Louis XVI." ❋ Cl (1912)

In the Place de la Revolution a gruesome engine they called the guillotine was levelling all things, and fast establishing the reign of absolute equality. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

You borrow a guillotine from the French and we could have a party … KONDRACKE: I was going to recommend boiling in oil in ❋ Unknown (2009)

And I just threw up the window -- it's what they call a guillotine window -- and there I saw the water, you know, ma'am, in what they call the moat -- " ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)

Sides, doesnt the guillotine sound like it would intimidate criminals much more than some stupid injection that they hafta wait 40 yrs for? off track, I know, but if they do get such a huge sentence, that’s my opinion of it, and I think they SHOULD get the death penalty … but the guillotine is far more effective … that and hanging. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ariel Zambelich for The Wall Street Journal After attaching the end pages to the inner pages, the pages of the book are trimmed in a machine called a 'guillotine.' ❋ Unknown (2011)

God knows I had no interest in it, but a guillotine is a machine, after all. ❋ Rose Melikan (2010)

Besides, when you think about it, the guillotine is a remarkably rational approach to institutionalized murder. ❋ Megan McAndrew (2009)

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