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guillotine
[ gil-uh-teen, gee-uh-; verb gil-uh-teen, gee-uh- ]
noun
- a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
- an instrument for surgically removing the tonsils.
- any of various machines in which a vertical blade between two parallel uprights descends to cut or trim metal, stacks of paper, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to behead by the guillotine.
- to cut with or as if with a guillotine.
guillotine
noun
- a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
- execution by this instrument
- a device for cutting or trimming sheet material, such as paper or sheet metal, consisting of a blade inclined at a small angle that descends onto the sheet
- a surgical instrument for removing tonsils, growths in the throat, etc
- Also calledclosure by compartment (in Parliament, etc) a form of closure under which a bill is divided into compartments, groups of which must be completely dealt with each day
verb
- to behead (a person) by guillotine
- (in Parliament, etc) to limit debate on (a bill, motion, etc) by the guillotine
guillotine
- A machine designed for beheading people quickly and with minimal pain. The guillotine, which used a large falling knife blade, was devised by a physician, Joseph Guillotin, during the French Revolution and was used as the official method of execution in France until the twentieth century.
Derived Forms
- ˌܾˈپԱ, noun
Other yvlogs From
- ܲ·ܾl·پԱ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of guillotine1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of guillotine1
Example Sentences
The American, 32, out-grappled Edwards throughout before ending the contest with a guillotine choke.
She was guillotined in 1793 at the age of 37, along with her husband, at the height of the French Revolution.
The last queen of France was guillotined in 1793 at the age of 37, along with her husband at the height of the French Revolution.
After drying during a series of slow corkscrews, the new magazine’s edges were chopped smooth by guillotines and emerged through an opening.
Dubray’s mediocre statue had already been beheaded three decades ago — a symbolic decapitation that couldn’t help but recall Marie-Antoinette’s actual fate at the guillotine.
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