<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>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 French Revolution.</li><li>an instrument for surgically removing the tonsils.</li><li>any of various machines in which a vertical blade between two parallel uprights descends to cut or trim metal, stacks of paper, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to behead by the guillotine.</li><li>to cut with or as if with a guillotine.</li></ul>