Meanings (ES + gloss)
guillotina
A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
For two-and-twenty years he [Joseph-Ignace Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander…
guillotina
A device or machine with a cutting blade.
Phrases
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
guillotinar
To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it.
Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.