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guillotine Noun 1. a device formerly used, esp. in France, for beheading people, consisting of a weighted blade between two upright posts, which was dropped on the neck 2. a device with a blade for cutting paper Verb [-tining, -tined] to behead with a guillotine [after J I Guillotin, who advocated its use]
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Translations (for paper) → massicot m (for paper) → (Papier)schneidemaschine f |
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by the guillotine during the period of that instrument's activity. In fact, we found it necessary to guillotine him only yesterday. The wars, the guillotine and exile had reduced it to two, one of which was despotic in her government, so far as theory was concerned at least; possibly, at times, a little so in practice. |
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