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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Guillotine
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(1):
(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.
(2):
(v. t.) To behead with the guillotine.
(3):
(n.) Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.