guillotine
71guillotine — instrument qui servait à couper la tête des condamnés à mort ♦ Joseph Ignace Guillotin médecin et député français qui a proposé l’usage d’un tel instrument …
72guillotine — (GHEE oh teen) [French] An instrument of capital punishment introduced in France in 1792 and used to excess during the French Revolution: a heavy blade that drops down between two vertical posts and beheads the victim. A similar device for… …
73guillotine — guil·lo·tine …
74guillotine — n. (in surgery) 1) an instrument used for removing the tonsils. It is loop shaped and contains a sliding knife blade. 2) an encircling suture to control the escape of fluid or blood from an orifice or to close a gap …
75guillotine — guil|lo|ti|ne sb., n, r, rne (en henrettelsesmaskine) …
76Guillotine — Guil|lo|ti|ne [gɪljo... , gijo... ], die; , n <nach dem französischen Arzt Guillotin> (Fallbeil) …
77guillotine — nf. ; (en plus à Montmélian) banc de tonnelier pour tailler les douves : GUILYOTINA (Albanais, Annecy, Montmélian, Thônes). E. : Banc, Gouge …
78guillotine — /gibtiyn/giyatiyn/ An instrument for decapitation, used in France for the infliction of the death penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weighted knife blade moving perpendicularly between grooved posts, which is… …
79guillotine — /gibtiyn/giyatiyn/ An instrument for decapitation, used in France for the infliction of the death penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weighted knife blade moving perpendicularly between grooved posts, which is… …
80guillotine — A bench tool for cutting sheet metal. The sheet is pulled in by two adjustable rollers (one above and the other below) as the tool cuts the metal in either a straight line or a curve as desired …
