guillotine n. guillotines <'gil&"tEn> Consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people.
[ETYM: French, from Guillotin, a French physician, who proposed, in the Constituent Assembly of 1789, to abolish decapitation with the ax or sword.]
> guillotine n. guillotines <'gil&"tEn> Consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people.
> [ETYM: French, from Guillotin, a French physician, who proposed, in the Constituent Assembly of 1789, to abolish decapitation with the ax or sword.]
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