guillotinen.
/ˈɡɪlətiːn/, /ˌɡɪləˈtiːn/, /ˌɡiːjəˈtiːn/, U.S. /ˈɡɪləˌtin/, /ˈɡi(j)əˌtin/ 1. An instrument used in France (esp. during the Revolution) for beheading, consisting of a heavy knife blade sliding between grooved posts. Also, execution by this instrument.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > beheading > guillotining > guillotine
guillotine1793
1793 Ann. Reg. 278 At half past 12 the guillotine severed her head from her body.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxxix. 67 One makes new noses, one a guillotine.
1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 417 Alibaud was condemned to the guillotine.
1877 E. B. Hamley Voltaire xxvi. 202 The violent overturning of the old monarchy, the proscriptions, the massacres, the guillotine—these would have received no countenance from him.
2. The name of various instruments acting in a similar manner:
a. Surgery, an instrument for excising the tonsil or uvula and for other surgical operations.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > instruments for excising tissue generally
gammot1585
rongeur1859
guillotine1866
punch forceps1870
harpoon1876
snare1884
punch1887
dermatome1888
plough1907
resectoscope1926
1866 J. M. Sims Notes Uterine Surg. iii. 224 But I think I have at last hit upon something better [than the curved scissors] which I would term the uterine guillotine.
1880 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose I. 321 Abscission may be performed by means of knives, scissors, guillotines, or écraseurs.
1886 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
b. (See quots.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > cutting equipment > machines
slitting-mill?1677
slit-mill1776
shear1845
nail cutter1851
plate shears1861
bar-cutter1874
paper cutter1880
guillotine1881
croppera1884
guillotine shears1884
nibbler1939
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 144 Guillotine, a machine for breaking iron with a falling weight.
1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Guillotines, machines used in the iron and steel industry for cutting square blocks of steel to a certain length.
c. A machine for cutting the edges of books, paper, straw, etc.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > others
ripper1659
Mohock1721
pinking iron1761
stock knife1799
sapper1822
ice plough1830
race knife1832
dresser1860
race-tool1867
pen-maker1875
stone-cutter1875
twinning-machine1875
nail cutter1876
paper cutter1880
guillotine1883
miller1890
flaker1891
undercutter1891
race1904
lino-cutter1907
gang mower1917
go-devil1918
rotary cutter1936
stripping-bill1968
fragmentizer1972
1883 Scotsman 9 May 11/7 Valuable Printing Plant..Two Guillotines.
1896 Advt. Printers.—Wanted, young man as Machine Man... One with knowledge of guillotine preferred.
3. (a) U.S. (See quot. 1883.) (b) A method of shortening the discussion on a bill in parliament, by fixing a day when the Committee stage must close.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > forms of closure
guillotine1850
block closure1901
kangaroo1913
kangaroo closure1930
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. Introd. 52 Keeping up the metaphor of the political guillotine, [etc.].
1883 Encycl. Amer. I. 200/1 The axe, or rather the guillotine, is made to represent the dismissal of Government officials upon the coming in of a new President, or in case of some grave complication, and the victims are said to be beheaded.
1893 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 20 Mar. 1/2 The Post-Office Guillotine Working Rapidly.
1893 Scotsman 28 June 6 Let us suppose that the Government have resolved to adopt the guillotine.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 30 June 2/2 The Coercion Bill (1887) was allowed 15 days in Committee before the application of the guillotine.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
guillotine-massacre n.
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1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible (1799) i. 6 I cannot, with you, attribute the guillotine-massacres to that cause.
guillotine-process n.
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1893 Daily News 10 June 3/8 There might be an objection to applying the guillotine process to the Bill as a whole.
b. (In sense 3b.)
guillotine closure n.
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1909 Westm. Gaz. 14 May 2/2 Let it be understood..that the guillotine closure will not be used, however prolonged the sittings may be.
1927 Daily Express 10 May 2/7 To introduce the guillotine or kangaroo method of closure.
guillotine motion n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > forms of closure > guillotine motion
timetable motion1920
guillotine motion1946
1946 Ann. Reg. 1945 94 The guillotine motion in Standing Committee should take the form of naming the date by which the Bill should be reported.
1958 Ann. Reg. 1957 7 A ‘guillotine’ motion for its [sc. the Bill's] acceleration was moved and carried.
guillotine resolution n.
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1927 Daily Tel. 10 May 12/3 The Government will bring in a ‘guillotine’ resolution.
guillotine time n.
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1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 3/4 (heading) Guillotine time only days away as broadcasting debate goes on.
C2.
guillotine-cravat n. a fashion of cravat current during the French revolution.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neck-tie or cravat > cravat > types of
bib-cravat1684
burdash1707
chin-cushion1747
King William cravat1747
Soubise1776
front1843
guillotine-cravat1880
1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy iii. 225 Italy had become cosmopolitan and eclectic, borrowing top boots, guillotine cravats, and Grecian sandals.
guillotine-cutter n. = 2c.
guillotine-instrument n. Surgery = 2a.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 428/2 Guillotine instrument.
guillotine-window n. [French fenêtre à guillotine] an ordinary sash window, jocularly so called from the fact that the sashes slide in grooves.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > sash window
sash window1686
sash light1700
window sash1703
sash-casement1759
sashed window1816
Yorkshire light1892
guillotine-window1898
1898 Daily News 28 Feb. 4/7 The French laugh at our ‘guillotine windows’, and greatly prefer their own, which open inwards.
C3.
guillotine shears n. a form of shearing machine having a stationary lower blade and used chiefly for cutting metal sheet and strip.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > cutting equipment > machines
slitting-mill?1677
slit-mill1776
shear1845
nail cutter1851
plate shears1861
bar-cutter1874
paper cutter1880
guillotine1881
croppera1884
guillotine shears1884
nibbler1939
1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron xvi. 348 A form of powerful guillotine shears.
1967 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 96/2 The Swedish company's range of hydraulic press brakes and guillotine shears.
Derivatives
guillotinism n. execution by means of the guillotine.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > beheading > guillotining
guillotinism1793
guillotining1794
guillotinade1835
guillotinement1837
1793 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 404 Lo! I who erst..Disclos'd the secrets of the Royal House, And sang the Guillotinism of—a louse!
guillotinist n. one who favours execution by the guillotine.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > beheading > guillotining > one in favour of
guillotinista1797
a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 50 The humane guillotinists of Bourdeaux.
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guillotinev.
/ˈɡɪlətiːn/, /ˌɡɪləˈtiːn/, /ˌɡiːjəˈtiːn/, U.S. /ˈɡɪləˌtin/, /ˈɡi(j)əˌtin/ 1. transitive. To behead by the guillotine.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > behead > guillotine
guillotine1794
1794 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 10 May (1799) 14/2 Guillotined at Paris, madame Elizabeth, sister of the late king of France.
1810 Q. Rev. Nov. 464 Our late philosophers (for we believe they are most of them guillotined).
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. ii. 410 They have suffered much: their friends guillotined; their pleasures,..ruthlessly repressed.
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 146 You could fancy her going to be guillotined in old lace like Marie-Antoinette.
2. In various applied senses.
a. To cut (the edges of a book) with a guillotine.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind [verb (transitive)] > other processes
to knock up1660
glair1755
board1813
lace1818
crop1824
beback1858
plough1873
cord1876
to throw out1880
guillotine1896
pull1901
reback1901
super1914
1896 Daily News 23 Mar. 8/6 Only the cheaper books are sewn by machinery..the better volumes being sewn with silk by hand. Then the edges are guillotined.
b. To cut short discussion upon (a bill, a clause).
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [verb (transitive)] > cut short discussion on
guillotine1893
1893 Times 1 June 9/5 To fix a date for guillotining each clause in succession.
Derivatives
guillotined adj.
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1796 Times 1 Aug. in J. Ashton Old Times (1885) 322 The widows of twenty guillotined poor souls.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxix. 425 The vehicle was not exactly a gig..nor a guillotined cabriolet.
ˌguillotiˈneer n.
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1897 Expositor's Grk. Test. I. 164/1 Even persecutors and guillotineers get weary of their savage work.
guillotiner n. one who guillotines.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > one who beheads > one who guillotines
guillotiner1832
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 275 They..would rather be the guillotined than the guillotiners.
1890 Longman's Mag. Aug. 359 These were would-be guillotiners, now to be guillotined in their turn!
guilloˈtinement n. [so in French] execution by the guillotine.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > beheading > guillotining
guillotinism1793
guillotining1794
guillotinade1835
guillotinement1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vii. ii. 405 Bewildered by long terror, perturbations, and guillotinement.
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