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1.NounA machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
2.NounA device or machine with a cutting blade.
A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
3.NounA device or machine with a cutting blade.
A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
4.NounA device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
5.NounAn instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
6.NounA parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
7.NounA parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
8.NounA legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
9.VerbTo use a guillotine (on someone or something).
To execute (someone) with a guillotine."Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution."
10.VerbTo execute (someone) with a guillotine."Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution."
11.VerbTo cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
12.VerbTo end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
13.VerbTo end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
14.VerbTo end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.