An instrument, similar to the guillotine, used in Edinburgh for beheading criminals of higher social status; (occasionally) = gibbet, n.1 1c. Now…
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释义 | society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > beheading > guillotining > guillotine > instrument similar to (3) maiden1565 An instrument, similar to the guillotine, used in Edinburgh for beheading criminals of higher social status; (occasionally) = gibbet, n.1 1c. Now… Halifax Gibbet1650 an instrument for beheading criminals, similar to the Scottish maiden or French guillotine, formerly in use at Halifax in Yorkshire. maid1699 regional. = maiden, n. 6. Obsolete. |
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