GUILLOTINE
\ɡˈɪlətˌiːn], \ɡˈɪlətˌiːn], \ɡ_ˈɪ_l_ə_t_ˌiː_n]\
Definitions of GUILLOTINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
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instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
By Princeton University
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closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
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instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
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To behead with the guillotine.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
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To behead with the guillotine.
By Noah Webster.
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To behead with the guillotine.
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An instrument for beheading-consisting of an upright frame down which a sharp heavy axe descends on the neck of the victim-adopted during the French Revolution, and named after Guillotin, a physician, who first proposed its adoption.
By Daniel Lyons
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To behead with the guillotine.
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An instrument for be heading criminals by the fall of a weighted knife: used by the French.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Instrument used in tonsillotomy.
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Instrument for cutting of the tonsil, etc.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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