guillotine vs scissor

guillotine

verb
  • To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine. 

  • To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture. 

  • To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure. 

  • To execute (someone) with a guillotine. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

scissor

verb
  • To cut using, or as if using, scissors. 

  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. 

  • To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other. 

  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. 

  • To excise or expunge something from a text. 

noun
  • One blade on a pair of scissors. 

  • Scissors. 

  • Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack. 

How often have the words guillotine and scissor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )