GUILLOTINE


Meaning of GUILLOTINE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Feeley looked like a man being led to the guillotine .

In fact, they wanted an even more severe limitation on politicians, but Willie Brown had the only guillotine .

Its words function like a guillotine .

Only five clauses of the Football Spectators Bill had been considered before the guillotine was introduced.

Provincial guillotines and scaffolds were dismantled and those not exhibited in museums were broken up and scrapped.

Where the guillotine improved on the Halifax design was the inbuilt facility to position the victim accurately and quickly in the machine.

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