Guillotine



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 断头台
• ［英］ 断头台 ( an instrument for beheading by means of a heavy blade dropped between two grooved uprights)
• ［记］ 来自法国医生Guillotin, 他发明了断头台

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: French, from Joseph Guillotin died 1814 French physician
• Date: 1793
• 1. a machine for beheading by means of a heavy blade that slides down in vertical guides
• 2. a shearing machine or instrument (as a paper cutter) that in action resembles a guillotine
• 3. chiefly British closure by the imposition of a predetermined time limit on the consideration of specific sections of a bill or portions of other legislative business
• ? guillotine transitive verb

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