guillotine knife
1Guillotine knife — Нож одноножевой бумагорезальной машины (гильотинного типа) …
2guillotine amputation — n an emergency surgical amputation (as of a leg) in which the skin is incised around the part being amputated and is allowed to retract, successive layers of muscle are then divided around the part, and finally the bone is divided * * * rapid… …
3Guillotine — A machine used during (and after) the French Revolution for beheading people condemned to death, by means of a heavy sharp blade that slid down within vertical guides. By extension, guillotine refers to any shearing machine or instrument (such as …
4guillotine — /gil euh teen , gee euh /; esp. for v. /gil euh teen , gee euh /, n., v., guillotined, guillotining. n. 1. a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the… …
5knife — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. blade, edge, point, steel, shiv (sl.), toothpick (sl.); carving knife; snickersnee, dagger, poniard, dirk, bodkin, stiletto; scalpel, lancet. See arms, sharpness. v. t. stab, cut, slice, slash; wound; …
6guillotine — n. & v. n. 1 a machine with a heavy knife blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading. 2 a device for cutting paper, metal, etc. 3 a surgical instrument for excising the uvula etc. 4 Parl. a method of preventing delay in the… …
7guillotine — n. (in surgery) 1) an instrument used for removing the tonsils. It is loop shaped and contains a sliding knife blade. 2) an encircling suture to control the escape of fluid or blood from an orifice or to close a gap …
8guillotine — /gibtiyn/giyatiyn/ An instrument for decapitation, used in France for the infliction of the death penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weighted knife blade moving perpendicularly between grooved posts, which is… …
9guillotine — /gibtiyn/giyatiyn/ An instrument for decapitation, used in France for the infliction of the death penalty on convicted criminals, consisting, essentially, of a heavy and weighted knife blade moving perpendicularly between grooved posts, which is… …
10guillotine shears — noun : power shears in which the upper knife slides between vertical guides …