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.
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.
A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
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.
An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification.
The act of deliberate killing of a person or other being without moral justification, especially with malice aforethought.
Something terrible to endure.
A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
To botch or mangle.
To devour, ravish.
To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
To defeat decisively.
To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.