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GUILLOTINE
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TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
11
pts
Big
11
pts
Super Big
20
pts
GUILLOTINE is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.
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noun
- alsofigurativelyhistoricalA 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.
- broadlyA device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
- broadlyAn instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
- UKbroadlyinformalA parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
- USbroadlyinformalA legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
verb
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alsofigurativelytransitiveTo execute (someone) with a guillotine.
- Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
- transitiveTo cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
- UKinformaltransitiveTo end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
- USinformaltransitiveTo end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
- figurativelytransitiveTo end anything abruptly.