Guillotine
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.
Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
To behead with the guillotine.
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Guillotine Quotations
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
David Hockney
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse
The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.
Herbert Lom
Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.
Thomas H. Kean
Guillotine Translations
guillotine in German is Schneidemaschine
guillotine in Spanish is guillotina, cortadora
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