Guillotine, a beheading-machine invented by a Dr. Guillotin, and recommended by him to the National Convention, which adopted it; “with my machine, Messieurs, I whisk off your head in a twinkling, and you have no pain;” it was anticipated by the Maiden in Scotland.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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