GUILLOTINE
- A surgical instrument with a sliding blade used typically for the removal of the tonsils
- (in parliament) A procedure used to prevent delay in the discussion of a legislative bill by fixing times at which various parts of it must be voted on
- A machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people
- A device for cutting that incorporates a descending or sliding blade, used typically for cutting paper, card, or sheet metal
- (French) an instrument for beheading consisting of a weighted blade allowed to drop between two tall grooved uprights [n -S] / to behead with a guillotine [v GUILLOTINED, GUILLOTINING, GUILLOTINES]
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