guillotine

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, , who proposed its use for capital punishment.

Noun

 * 1)  A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
 * 2) A device or machine with a cutting blade.
 * 3) A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
 * 4)  An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
 * 5)  A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
 * 6)  A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
 * 1)  A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
 * 2)  A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
 * 1)  A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
 * 2)  A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
 * 1)  A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مِقْصَلَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: جيلوتين
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: gilyotin
 * Belarusian: гільяці́на, гільяты́на
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 斷頭台
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: guillotine
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: gilotino
 * Estonian: giljotiin
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: გილიოტინა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: גִּילְיוֹטִינָה
 * Hindi: गिलोटिन
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: fallöxi
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: guillotina
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: гильотина
 * Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនកាត់ក
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: meşneqe, giyotîn
 * Kyrgyz: гильотина
 * Ladino: giyotina
 * Latvian: giljotīna
 * Lithuanian: giljotina
 * Macedonian: гилотина
 * Malay: gilotin
 * Norman: dgilliotinne
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: giljotin
 * Nynorsk: giljotin
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гѝљотина
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gilyotina
 * Tajik: гилйотина
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: гільйоти́на
 * Uzbek: gilʼotina
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:, đoạn đầu đài (斷頭臺)
 * Volapük: gilyoten
 * Yiddish: גיליאָטין


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: paperileikkuri,
 * French:
 * German: Papierschneider
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: síkvágó
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skjæremaskin
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ре́зальная маши́на, ре́зательная маши́на
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from (see etymology 1) +.

Verb

 * 1) To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
 * 2)  To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
 * 3) To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
 * 4)  To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
 * 5)  To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
 * 1)  To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
 * 2)  To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: teloittaa giljotiinilla
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: gilotynować, zgilotynować
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: казни́ть на гильоти́не,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: gilyotenön

Etymology
Borrowed from. Named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin. First attested in the early 1790s.

Etymology 1
From. , who proposed its use for capital punishment. The surname is a diminutive of.

Noun

 * 1)  machine

Etymology
, . After Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who proposed its use for capital punishment.

Noun

 * 1)  machine.