Guillotine

n.	1.	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.
	2.	Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
v. t.	1.	To behead with the guillotine. [imp. & p. p. Guillotined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Guillotining.]

Noun	1.	guillotine - closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill Synonyms: closure by compartment
	2.	guillotine - instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
Verb	1.	guillotine - kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"

To see a guillotine in your dream, symbolizes anger, hostility and the eruption of strong emotions. It may suggest that you are not using your head and that you need to think things through before you act. You have failed to use your better judgment.ax, behead, beheading, block, bowstring, burn, burning, capital punishment, cloture, cloture by compartment, cross, crucifixion, crucify, death chair, death chamber, decapitate, decapitation, decollate, decollation, defenestrate, defenestration, drop, electric chair, electrocute, electrocution, execute, execution, fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garrote, gas chamber, gassing, gibbet, halter, hanging, head, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar, hot seat, inflict capital punishment, judicial murder, kangaroo cloture, lapidate, lapidation, lethal chamber, maiden, necktie party, noose, poisoning, put to death, rope, scaffold, shoot, shooting, stake, stem, stone, stoning, strangle, strangling, strangulation, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, tree

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