- a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
- an instrument for surgically removing the tonsils.
- any of various machines in which a vertical blade between two parallel uprights descends to cut or trim metal, stacks of paper, etc.
- to behead by the guillotine.
- to cut with or as if with a guillotine.
- a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
- execution by this instrument
- a device for cutting or trimming sheet material, such as paper or sheet metal, consisting of a blade inclined at a small angle that descends onto the sheet
- a surgical instrument for removing tonsils, growths in the throat, etc
- (in Parliament, etc) a form of closure under which a bill is divided into compartments, groups of which must be completely dealt with each day
- to behead (a person) by guillotine
- (in Parliament, etc) to limit debate on (a bill, motion, etc) by the guillotine
