guillotine

guillotine has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• 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 upon the neck of the victim.
• n.. Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
• v. t.. To behead with the guillotine.
• n.. instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
• n.. closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
• v.. kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"