1. guillotine - Noun
2. guillotine - Verb
A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
To behead with the guillotine.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFaith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light. Franz Kafka
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. Clare Boothe Luce
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. P. G. Wodehouse
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. George Bernard Shaw
Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine. Paulo Coelho
Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine. Peter Weiss