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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Guillotine

/(gĭl"lō̇*tēn`)/ · Guil·lo·tine · IPA /ˈɡɪləˌtin/
01 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 u…
  1. 1.
    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. 2.
    Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
02 v. t. To behead with the guillotine.
imp. & p. p. Guillotined; p. pr. & vb. n. Guillotining
  1. 1.
    To behead with the guillotine.